Abstract
Ballistic hot electrons in fs-laser-excited gold are used to generate ultrashort (2 ps duration) acoustic pulses in cobalt. The exponential dependence of the acoustic amplitude on gold thickness provides the electron mean-free-path of 120 nm.
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