We study the relaxation dynamics of pyrrole after excitation with an 8 eV pump pulse to a state just 0.2 eV below the ionization potential using vacuum ultraviolet/ultraviolet pump probe spectroscopy. Our measurements in conjunction with electronic structure calculations indicate that pyrrole undergoes rapid internal conversion to the ground state in less than 300 fs. We find that internal conv...

Using a superconducting circuit, the Josephson mixer, we demonstrate the first experimental realization of spatially separated two-mode squeezed states of microwave light. Driven by a pump tone, a first Josephson mixer generates, out of quantum vacuum, a pair of entangled fields at different frequencies on separate transmission lines. A second mixer, driven by a π-phase shifted copy of the firs...

In this paper we present a development of a multipurpose vacuum chamber which primal function is to be used in pump/probe experiments with free electron laser (FEL) radiation. The chamber is constructed for serial diffraction and serial spectroscopy allowing a fast exchange of samples during the measurement process. For the fast exchange of samples, liquid jet systems are used. Both application...

We describe the beamline optics, the shutters and the femtosecond laser used in pump & probe experiments down to 50 picosecond resolution. The performance of in-vacuum undulators is compared to in-air undulators. It is concluded that single-harmonic in-vacuum undulators are optimal for pump and probe experiments based on single-bunch exposures. These low-K undulators can produce a spectral flux...

Experimental A stainless steel ultra high vacuum (UHV) chamber, pumped by a turbo molecular pump backed by a mechanical pump, providing a base pressure of 5X10 torr after bake out, was used for temperature programmed desorption (TPD) experiments with a typical heating rate of 2.5 K/s. Samples could be cooled below 100 K via a liquid nitrogen dewar and heated up to 1300 K via resistive heating. ...

A prototype of a non-occlusive pressure-regulated blood pump (M-pump) was evaluated in-vitro for safety in a comparative study with the roller and centrifugal pumps. The M-pump consists of collapsible tubing of unique design wrapped under tension around a rotor without a stator. The prototype M-pumps were tested in vitro to evaluate performance with respect to flow/ pressure characteristics, he...