The ¹³C chemical shifts of carbons found in proteins and nucleic acids span a frequency bandwidth that ranges from 22.5 kHz at 14.1 T (600 MHz ¹H) to 45 kHz at 28.2 Tesla(1.2 GHz ¹H). At higher magnetic fields, the conventional pulses used for excitation, refocusing and decoupling fail to cover the full bandwidth within the power limits of modern probes, thus decreasing the ability to excite all nuclei and to decouple multiplet splitting of peaks. Adiabatic broadband decoupling pulses provide lowpower broadband decoupling, but are plagued with intense sideband artifacts. As the spectrometer fields increase, the need for a robust, low power, broadband ¹³C decoupling pulse becomes greater. Here, we present low power ¹³C decoupling pulses designed with optimal control (OC) theory and broadband refocusing pulses that cover greater than 47 kHz. We show the advantages of using low power OC decoupling scheme and broadband refocusing pulses in ¹H, ¹³C HMQC and ¹³C-edited ¹H, ¹H NOESY spectra. The OC decoupling pulses are compared with GARP and WURST. Further, we propose the use of these broadband pulses in a suite of optimized pulse sequences intended for ¹H, ¹³C HMQC and ¹³C- edited/filtered ¹H, ¹H NOESY and ¹³C, ¹³C NOESY spectra collected at high fields.