Laser-matter interaction performed by ultra-short laser pulses provides the opportunity of producing either nanostructured thin films or periodic surface structures at the nanoscale by Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD) and Laser Induced Periodic Surface Structure (LIPS), respectively.
EFSL (EuroFEL Support Laboratory) is a recently born (est. 2015) ultrafast laser laboratory situated in the headquarters of the Istituto di Struttura della Materia of the National Research Council of Italy in Tor Vergata near Rome. The mission of the laboratory is to build up an ultrafast spectroscopy community in Italy to support activities at Free Electron Laser facilities both in Italy and abroad. To do so the lab is open to research proposals for the study of ultrafast photoinduced processes in materials. It concentrates on the use of pump-probe techniques to study ultrafast processes in nanomaterials, the plasmonic response of materials, photovoltaic materials and molecular dynamics.