Abstract
An area of research receiving considerable attention at present is coherent control of molecules. One of the pursuits in this field is excitation of molecules into high lying vibration states by using chirped excitation. To date, the only experimental work on chirped mid-infrared excitation has been carried out with a free electron laser, which could generate pulse energies of 2 µJ at a wavelength of 5 µm with pulse duration of 350 fs [1]. In this paper, we describe a high intensity, dual-wavelength laser system that can be applied to carry out these types of experiments.
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