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We report on femtosecond laser studies of small biomolecules, produced in the gas phase via laser induced acoustic desorption. In studies of the aromatic amino acid phenylalanine, we have found that the wavelength of the femtosecond pulse can be used to manipulate molecular fragmentation. These preliminary experiments indicate that this technique provides a promising scheme for investigations of ultrafast dynamics in complex molecules. Future studies should enable temporally resolved observations, by employing ultrafast pump-probe techniques.
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LB and MJD acknowledge funding from the Department of Employment and Learning (NI). OK and RBK acknowledge funding from the Leverhulme Trust. CRC acknowledges funding from the EPSRC (UK) Postdoctoral Fellowship for Physics at the Life-Science Interface. The experiments were carried out using the UFL2 laser system from the EPSRC laser loan pool.
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Belshaw, L. et al. (2012). Ionisation and Fragmentation of Small Biomolecules with Femtosecond Laser Pulses. In: Yamanouchi, K., Katsumi, M. (eds) Multiphoton Processes and Attosecond Physics. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 125. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28948-4_51
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