Bandwidth extension in noise spectroscopy.

Noise spectroscopy has previously been demonstrated to provide broad-bandwidth excitation with minimal applied RF field strengths. Nonetheless, its application to broadline solid-state NMR spectroscopy has appeared limited by the need to have unrealistically short probe- and receiver-recovery times after pulses. In this Communication, we explain theoretically and demonstrate experimentally that accurate lineshapes can be observed in 2H solid-state NMR spectroscopy even where the probe ringdown time greatly exceeds the required time between sampled data points. Moreover, accurate lineshapes can be observed to +/-125 kHz using RF fields as weak as a few hundred hertz. Copyright 1998 Academic Press.