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fast communications
10 ps 193 nm pulses have been used to generate characteristic Cu Kα X-ray pulses with less than 50 ps duration and 300 Hz repetition rate. Both light and X-ray pulses are highly synchronized and are used in pump-probe experiments that monitor the effect of temperature on a gold (111) single-crystal lattice with picosecond time resolution.