• Ultrafast Science
  • Vol. 2, Issue 1, 9867028 (2022)
Yao Fu1, Jincheng Cao1, Kaoru Yamanouchi2、*, and Huailiang Xu1、3、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1State Key Laboratory of Integrated Optoelectronics, College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
  • 2Department of Chemistry, School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
  • 3CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-Intense Laser Science, Shanghai 201800, China
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    DOI: 10.34133/2022/9867028 Cite this Article
    Yao Fu, Jincheng Cao, Kaoru Yamanouchi, Huailiang Xu. Air-Laser-Based Standoff Coherent Raman Spectrometer[J]. Ultrafast Science, 2022, 2(1): 9867028 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Among currently available optical spectroscopic methods, Raman spectroscopy has versatile application to investigation of dynamical processes of molecules leading to chemical changes in the gas and liquid phases. However, it is still a challenge to realize an ideal standoff coherent Raman spectrometer with which both high temporal resolution and high-frequency resolution can be achieved, so that one can remotely probe chemical species in real time with high temporal resolution while monitoring the populations in their respective rovibronic levels in the frequency domain with sufficiently high spectral resolution. In the present study, we construct an air-laser-based Raman spectrometer, in which near-infrared femtosecond (fs) laser pulses at 800 nm and cavity-free picosecond N2+ air-laser pulses at 391 nm generated by the filamentation induced by the fs laser pulses are simultaneously used, enabling us to generate a hybrid ps/fs laser source at a desired standoff position for standoff surveillance of chemical and biochemical species. With this prototype Raman spectrometer, we demonstrate that the temporal evolution of the electronic, vibrational, and rotational states of N2+ and the coupling processes of the rovibrational wave packet of N2 molecules can be probed.
    Yao Fu, Jincheng Cao, Kaoru Yamanouchi, Huailiang Xu. Air-Laser-Based Standoff Coherent Raman Spectrometer[J]. Ultrafast Science, 2022, 2(1): 9867028
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