Computer-Aided Crafting of Pulse Shapes for Broadband Heteronuclear Decoupling in the presence of Homonuclear Coupling

Abstract

We present a pulse shape tailored for broadband decoupling for a system of spin-1/2's with scalar couplings as well. In crafting the pulse shape Coherent Averaging Theory and Fourier expansion method are used. The Fourier expansion coefficients are optimized numerically by applying the Simulated Annealing Method. The decoupling performance of the shaped pulse thus designed is then compared with the well-known composite pulse sequence, DIPSI-2. It is shown that the shaped pulse performs well even at the conditions where the DIPSI sequence begins to fail.