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Preface
The field of ultrafast infrared and Raman spectroscopy is advancing at a
remarkable rate. New techniques and laser sources are making it possible
to investigate a wide range of problems in chemistry, physics, and biology,
using ultrafast time domain vibrational spectroscopy. Although the first
infrared measurements were made by Isaac Newton in the early 1700s, it is
only recently that an explosion of activity using ultrafast pulsed techniques
has moved vibrational spectroscopy along the path that ic resonance
spectroscopy followed almost from its inception.
Vibrational spectroscopy examines the internal mechanical degrees
of freedom of molecules and the external mechanical degrees of freedom
of condensed matter systems. It is the direct connection among vibra-
tional spectra, molecular structure, and intermolecular interactions that has
made vibrational spectroscopy an indispensable tool in the study of molec-
ular matter. In addition, most chemical, physical, and biological processes
are thermal. Such processes i