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APPLIED OPTICS
Volume 45, Issue 3, Pages 558-564Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.000558
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM056816] Funding Source: Medline
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A tunable, ultrafast (similar to 100 fs- similar to 1 ps) laser system generating mid-IR (3-10 mu m) and UV/visible (392-417nm, 785-835 nm) radiation is described and its output characterized. The system is designed to explore vibrational dynamics in the condensed phase in a direct, two-pulse, time-resolved manner, using Raman spectroscopy as the probe. To produce vibrational resolution, probe pulses are spectrally narrowed by use of a long doubling crystal. Frequency-resolved optical gating is used to evaluate beam characteristics. An effective method for determining the temporal overlap of the pump and probe pulses for a one-color, 400 nm configuration is illustrated. Representative results from studies of heme and paranitroaniline vibrational dynamics illustrate the effectiveness of the visible pump-visible probe portion of the system in illuminating fast structure and energy dynamics. (c) 2006 Optical Society of America.
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