This project aimed to establish an experimental facility that allowed characterisation of physical processes on the ultrafast (>femtosecond) time scales. This is achieved by a femtosecond laser oscillator in which the active medium is a titanium-sapphire single crystal. The seed pulse is split into two pulses, a pump beam that falls onto the sample of interest and a subsequent pulse, called the probe delayed by a time interval ranging from femtoseconds to nanoseconds that subsequently negotiates the out-of-equilibrium state of the material as a function of time. Spatial sampling of the beams will also give the possibility of spatial mapping of processes. The processes that were investigated as test experiments are novel and include some interesting aspects in the burgeoning field of Femtomagnonics. This work provided impetus to foray into topological materials and will also become the stepping stone for follow-up and alternative funding applications to purchase additional components that will allow a complete setup to be built that utilises higher energy pulses allowing us to access non-perturbative regimes and excitations far from equilibrium.