The project focused on creating harmonics by focusing laser beams through a non-linear medium. From beginning to end the project showed how lower harmonics and high harmonics are generated, the necessity of a vacuum system for the harmonic generation, and the delicate intricacies of aligning optics. The high harmonic laser will be used to excite molecules in a larger project of pump probe spectroscopy. Pump probe spectroscopy is the process of exciting a molecule with an initial laser beam and then probing the same molecule with the second laser beam. The time between the pump and probe is delayed to produce a "movie" of the molecule which can then be analyzed. This project focused on the creation of a vacuum system that would allow the generation of high harmonics to be possible and detected by a microchannel plate. The vacuum system must be held at extremely low pressures so that the ionization of ambient air molecules is not present, and so that the microchannel plate is not damaged by water vapor or other harmful molecules. The vacuum system has specifications to the geometry of the optics and the distances in the geometry had to be exact in order to get the clearest signal readout.