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J. Phys. Chem. B 2008, 112, 4826-4832
Development of a Tunable Femtosecond Stimulated Raman Apparatus and Its Application to β-Carotene Sangdeok Shim and Richard A. Mathies* Department of Chemistry, UniVersity of California, Berkeley, California 94720 ReceiVed: October 31, 2007; In Final Form: January 21, 2008
We have developed a tunable femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy (FSRS) apparatus and used it to perform time-resolved resonance Raman experiments with