The very new laser of the "Plateforme Laser Femtoseconde Accordable, PLFA" began to be installed last year within the
Service de Photons Atomes et Molécules" (CEA-Saclay ans CNRS). It belongs to the infrastructure
l'infrastructure SLIC, member of the European network
LASERLAB-EUROPE and is thus
accessible to European scientists. It was designed according to several bets: high repetition rate (1 Khz), strong pulse energy (up to 13mJ, at 800nm), broad accordability (500-750nm) and ultra-fast pulses (<35 fs = 35x10
-15 s). The very first results obtained with the PLFA laser are just published.
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Femtosecond Dynamics of the tert-Butyl Radical, t-C4H9, B. Noller, R. Maksimenka, I. Fischer, M. Armone, B. Engels, C. Alcaraz, L. Poisson, and J.-M. Mestdagh
J. Phys. Chem. A, 111(2007)1771.