Applications
Femtosecond Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy
Femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy (FSRS) is a relatively recent yet moderately widespread time-resolved spectroscopy technique for observing changes in the vibrational structure of optically excited molecular systems.
At its core, FSRS is a multi-pulse technique that can be summarized as follows. First, an ultrashort actinic pump pulse acts on a molecular system in its ground state and initiates the photoreaction. Then, a pair of temporally delayed pulses probes the successive photoevolution. Here, a picosecond Raman pump and broadband femtosecond Raman probe pulse are used. The temporal overlap of these two pulses brings coherence in the excited state, resulting in the amplification of the Stokes and anti-Stokes frequencies within the probe field, i.e., stimulated Raman emission. Since a high degree of coherence is achieved only during the short temporal overlap of the Raman pump and probe pulses, FSRS spectroscopy offers a high resolution in both spectral and temporal domains.
FSRS is readily available in the HARPIA spectroscopy system, providing vibrational structural information with < 200 fs temporal and < 10 cm-1 spectral resolution. Raman pump can be generated using SHBC, if a fixed-wavelength output at 515 nm is sufficient, or SHBC together with ORPHEUS-PS, if a wide tuning range is desired. The system is pumped by a PHAROS femtosecond laser.
- Market-leading sensitivity
- 330 nm – 24 μm spectral range
- Probe delay ranges from 2 to 8 ns
- Pump pulse energies down to nJ
- Cryostat and peristaltic pump support
- Delivery of an additional femtosecond or picosecond beam
- Polarization, intensity, and delay control
- Femtosecond stimulated Raman scattering (FSRS) support
- Z-scan support
- 515 nm picosecond pulses from femtosecond pump
- < 10 cm⁻¹ spectral bandwidth
- 2 – 4 ps pulse duration
- > 30% conversion efficiency
- Compact footprint
- Picosecond pulses from femtosecond pump
- 210 – 4800 nm tuning range
- 800 fs – 3 ps pulse duration
- < 20 cm-1 spectral bandwidth
- Up to 100 kHz repetition rate
- High output stability
- Continuous tunability from UV to MIR, 190 – 16000 nm
- High energy and high power models for all needs
- Single-shot – 2 MHz repetition rate
- Up to 80 W pump power
- Up to 2 mJ pump pulse energy
- Tunable pulse duration, 100 fs – 20 ps
- Maximum pulse energy of up to 4 mJ
- Down to < 100 fs right at the output
- Pulse-on-demand and BiBurst for pulse control
- Up to 5th harmonic or tunable extensions
- CEP stabilization or repetition rate locking
- Thermally-stabilized and sealed design
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