| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/M95974/01 |
| Title: |
NOVEL HIGH RESOLUTION BROADLY TUNABLE SOLID STATE PULSED LASER SYSTEM FOR SPECTROMETRY & PHOTOCHEMISTRY |
| Principal Investigator: |
Western, Dr CM |
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| Department: |
Chemistry |
| Organisation: |
University of Bristol |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 August 2000 |
Ends: |
31 July 2002 |
Value (£): |
68,483
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Chemical Structure |
Instrumentation Eng. & Dev. |
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Summary on Grant Application Form |
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We seek funding for a PDRA to aid in the development and initial application of a novel, state-of-the-art, broadly tunable, narrow-bandwidth, all solid-state optical parametric oscillator (OPO) laser source. The device is designed to give energies >10 mJ per pulse (idler output), with a bandwidth of ca. 150 MHz. The seeding comes from visible and near-ir laser diodes and those currently available will allow us to cover more than half of the entire 250-1000 nm wavelength range at this sort of resolution and with > mJ pulse energies. The combination of resolution, tunability and spectral brightness provided by this instrument will enable many new, and/or greatly improved, investigations of (i) structure and bonding in free radical species via high resolution hyperfine measurements, (ii) the electronic spectroscopy of compounds involving d-block elements via one and two colour spectroscopy, and (iii) the dynamics of molecular photodissociation processes and of state-selected bimolecular reactions via careful measurement and analysis of the Doppler lineshapes of the recoiling products.
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http://www.bris.ac.uk |