Artemis

the Artemis facility

Artemis is an ultrafast soft x-ray science facility based on high repetition rate, few optical cycle tuneable laser sources and coherent, ultra-fast XUV pulses produced through high harmonic generation. These synchronised sources are coupled to a pair of beam-lines with end-stations for materials science and atomic and molecular physics and chemistry.

Experiments on Artemis exploit high harmonic generation to investigate ultrafast dynamics in experiments spanning gas-phase chemistry of polyatomic molecules and condensed-matter physics of complex materials. Artemis combines femtosecond laser and synchrotron technologies to enable new science in this emerging field.

Artemis was built as a collaborative project between the Central Laser Facility, the Diamond synchrotron and UK and European universities, including Imperial College and the LUXOR laboratory in Padova.