Abstract

Advances in laser light sources have been the major driving force for progress in the development and application of Raman spectroscopy. The advances have utilized both the increased tunability of the laser sources as well as their short pulse lengths and high peak powers to both increase the information content as well as give dynamical information. We will discuss the revolution in the understanding of molecular and biomolecular structure which will derive from the application of FEL laser sources. We can easily extrapolate the utility of these new sources from our recent extensive UV Raman measurements using state-of-the-art commercial laser sources and non-linear optical conver sion techniques.

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