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  • Applied Spectroscopy
  • Vol. 57,
  • Issue 4,
  • pp. 367-380
  • (2003)

Development of a Broadband Picosecond Infrared Spectrometer and its Incorporation into an Existing Ultrafast Time-Resolved Resonance Raman, UV/Visible, and Fluorescence Spectroscopic Apparatus

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Abstract

We have constructed a broadband ultrafast time-resolved infrared (TRIR) spectrometer and incorporated it into our existing time-resolved spectroscopy apparatus, thus creating a single instrument capable of performing the complementary techniques of femto-/picosecond time-resolved resonance Raman (TR<sup>3</sup>), fluorescence, and UV/visible/infrared transient absorption spectroscopy. The TRIR spectrometer employs broadband (150 fs, ~150 cm<sup>-1</sup> FWHM) mid-infrared probe and reference pulses (generated by difference frequency mixing of near-infrared pulses in type I AgGaS<sub>2</sub>), which are dispersed over two 64-element linear infrared array detectors (HgCdTe). These are coupled via custom-built data acquisition electronics to a personal computer for data processing. This data acquisition system performs signal handling on a shot-by-shot basis at the 1 kHz repetition rate of the pulsed laser system. The combination of real-time signal processing and the ability to normalize each probe and reference pulse has enabled us to achieve a high sensitivity on the order of ΔOD ~ 10<sup>-4</sup>-10<sup>-5</sup> with 1 min of acquisition time. We present preliminary picosecond TRIR studies using this spectrometer and also demonstrate how a combination of TRIR and TR<sup>3</sup> spectroscopy can provide key information for the full elucidation of a photochemical process.

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