for the last three shifts starting 7am today, ending 7pm on friday, we originally intended to perform pump&probe experiments, with a multilayer mirror mounted on the rear side of the latex balls.
our original plan was to use a 2nd harmonic: 16nm mirror, but our experience with 2nd harmonic measurements was not convincing. so we decided to use the fundamental wavelength, but the required mirror was in livermore. but fedex lost it: no-we-have-not-lost-it-we-just-do-not-know-where-it-is. so we had to give up on doing pump&probe today, instead we do regular scattering experiments on focussed ion beam (fib) structures and latex balls. urs, a swiss postdoc at livermore, is on a plane to germany, to deliver spare 32nm mirrors. he will arrive tonight in hamburg. so we will at least have two shifts of pumpnprobe experiments.
marvin from uppsala volunteered to get on the first flight this morning to get to san fransisco. he celebrated with champagne when urs could do it instead.
