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Utilization of UV and IR Supercontinua in Gas-Phase Subpicosecond Kinetic Spectroscopy

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Through the work of photochemists extending over many decades, there now exists a wealth of information on the various reactions that photoexcited gas phase molecules undergo. Most of this information relates to the product molecules that are formed, either as the direct result of a primary photochemical act, such as photodissociation, or through subsequent secondary reactions, involving collisions with other molecules in the gas. Recently, there has been an extensive effort directed at determining the exact energy distributions of the primary products formed in photodissociation. With the use of nanosecond tunable-laser techniques, such as laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) and coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy (CARS), scientists have successfully determined the nascent electronic, vibrational, and rotational energy distributions of various diatomic fragments such as CN, OH, NO, and O2 that are directly formed in the photodissociation of many kinds of molecules. The ready availability of high-quality, tunable, nanosecond lasers has made determination of the above-mentioned collisionless energy distributions a relatively straightforward process. The determination of product translational energies has long effectively been handled by angularly resolved time-of-flight (TOF) spectroscopy, or by sub-Doppler resolution spectroscopy, including a recently improved version of the latter, velocity-aligned Doppler spectroscopy (Xu et al., 1986).

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Clownia, J.H., Misewich, J., Sorokin, P.P. (1989). Utilization of UV and IR Supercontinua in Gas-Phase Subpicosecond Kinetic Spectroscopy. In: Alfano, R.R. (eds) The Supercontinuum Laser Source. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2070-9_8

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