Pulse, read Pulsed experiments

At the very beginning of our discussion in 1.1.1, we mentioned that any pulse experiment begins with a delay period. This is necessary so that the spins can return to equilibrium before they are excited. After excitation (when the pulse is turned off) we observe the FID, the free induction decay What decays The induced magnetization of the spins, and this process is known as relaxation. It may be slow or fast, as we shall see, and can also occur via a number of processes, which are discussed in detail in the monographs we have recommended for further reading. We will only treat relaxation very briefly here. 

Because of the unique features of the x-ray radiation available at synchrotrons, many novel experiments ate being conducted at these sources. Some of these unique features are the very high intensity and the brightness (number of photons per unit area per second), the neatly parallel incident beam, the abihty to choose a narrow band of wavelengths from a broad spectmm, the pulsed nature of the radiation (the electrons or positrons travel in bunches), and the coherence of the beam (the x-ray photons in a pulse are in phase with one another). The appHcations are much more diverse than the appHcations described in this article. The reader may wish to read the articles in the Proceedings of the Materials Research Society Hsted in the bibhography. 

The pulse sequence which is used to record CH COSY Involves the H- C polarisation transfer which is the basis of the DEPT sequence and which Increases the sensitivity by a factor of up to four. Consequently, a CH COSY experiment does not require any more sample than a H broadband decoupled C NMR spectrum. The result is a two-dimensional CH correlation, in which the C shift is mapped on to the abscissa and the H shift is mapped on to the ordinate (or vice versa). The C and //shifts of the //and C nuclei which are bonded to one another are read as coordinates of the cross signal as shown in the CH COSY stacked plot (Fig. 2.14b) and the associated contour plots of the a-plnene (Fig. 2.14a and c). To evaluate them, one need only read off the coordinates of the correlation signals. In Fig. 2.14c, for example, the protons with shifts Sh= 1.16 (proton A) and 2.34 (proton B of an AB system) are bonded to the C atom at c = 31.5. Formula 1 shows all of the C//connectivities (C//bonds) of a-pinene which can be read from Fig. 2.14. 

The inverse INEPT (Bodenhausen and Ruben, 1980) and inverse DEPT (Brooks et ai, 1984) experiments utilize such an approach. In the inverse INEPT experiment, successive 90° pulses are applied to the C nucleus, followed by a H read pulse. Protons not coupled to the C nucleus are suppressed by presaturation of the entire H-NMR spectrum before the polarization transfer, so only those signals will be detected that are generated by polarization transfer from the C nucleus. 

The reference scan is to measure the decay due to spin-lattice relaxation. Compared with the corresponding stimulated echo sequence, the reference scan includes a jt pulse between the first two jt/2 pulses to refocus the dephasing due to the internal field and the second jt/2 pulse stores the magnetization at the point of echo formation. Following the diffusion period tD, the signal is read out with a final detection pulse. The phase cycling table for this sequence, including 2-step variation for the first three pulses, is shown in Table 3.7.2. The output from this pair of experiments are two sets of transients. A peak amplitude is extracted from each, and these two sets of amplitudes are analyzed as described below. 

In this case we pulse at the beginning of the evolution time and then wait before doing our acquisition pulse. If we vary this wait by incrementing it for each successive cycle, we can change what we see in the FID. This is what generates our second dimension. In the case of the COSY experiment, we allow the coupling information to evolve during this period and then read what has happened to it with the acquisition pulse. 

The accompanying table gives values of trace height at various times as read from a recorder for a pulse-tracer experiment (Thurier, 1977). In this experiment 1.5 cm3 of N2 was injected into a stream of He flowing steadily at 150 cm 3 s-1 through a stirred-tank reactor of volume 605 cm3. A thermal conductivity detector was used to compare the outlet stream (N2 + He) with the He feed stream, and the output fiom this as a trace on a recorder is a measure of the concentration of N2 in the outlet stream. 

Fig. 1. Top Scheme of an inversion recovery experiment 5rielding the longitudinal relaxation time (inversion is achieved by mean of the (re) radiofrequency (rf) pulse, schematized by a filled vertical rectangle). Free induction decays (fid represented by a damped sine function) resulting from the (x/2) read pulse are subjected to a Fourier transform and lead to a series of spectra corresponding to the different t values (evolution period). Spectra are generally displayed with a shift between two consecutive values of t. The analysis of the amplitude evaluation of each peak from — Mq to Mq provides an accurate evaluation of T. Bottom the example concerns carbon-13 Tl of irans-crotonaldehyde with the following values (from left to right) 20.5 s, 19.8 s, 23.3 s, and 19.3 s.

Fig. 2. The different stages of a field-cycling experiment. Spins are pre-polarized in a relatively high static magnetic field (Bq). The relevant magnetization then decays to its equilibrium value in the field Bq according to the longitudinal relaxation time of interest (at a frequency equal to yBQl2n). For sensitivity reasons, magnetization is read again in the Bq field (a n/2 pulse yielding an fid Acq).

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Fig. 8. Temporal scans of the phase conjugated output beam in degenerate four wave mixing experiments. On the left side, the nonlinearity is instantaneous with the DFWM signal being the autocorrelation of the laser pulse. On the right side, the DFWM signal does not vanish after the writing beams have left the sample. Two photon absorption has induced a grating of excited and ground state molecules which is read by the delayed beam and decays slowly...

The experiment is very simple—one line of a multiplet is selectively inverted (by a selective 180° pulse of duration r) immediately before the usual non-selective read pulse is applied and the FID sampled. The Fourier transform then yields the whole spectrum with altered line intensities. Populations of the energy levels connected by the selectively irradiated line are changed (inverted) by the selective pulse, and this leads to changes in... 

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