PolyPico Technology used at experiments undertaken at SACLA, Japan.
SACLA is a free-electron laser (X-FEL) embedded in the SPring-8 accelerator and synchrotron complex.
“Pico cat” is a character associated with SACLA.
(Pico is the metric prefix for 10-12)
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