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Carbon disulfide $(CS2)$ isolated in solid argon or nitrogen at 13 K was irradiated with light at 193 nm from an ArF excimer laser. Recombination of photofragments S and CS produces ring-$CS2$ that absorbs at $876.5(881.1)$ and at $517.7(522.7)cm-1$ in a argon matrix and $881.3,520.9cm-1$ in a nitrogen matrix: wave numbers listed parenthetically are associated with a minor site. The assignments are based on observed $\mathrm{<mrow\; data-mjx-texclass="ORD">34</mrow>}S$-isotopic shifts. Ab initio calculations using the MP2-FL and B3LYP density functional methods were carried out for ring-$CS2$ and linear-$CS2$; energies and vibrational wave numbers were predicted for each one. Observed line positions, infrared intensities and isotopic shifts fit well with those predicted for both species. Further irradiation of the matrix sample with different laser wavelengths, in the UV region with 248 and 308 nm and in the visible region with 532, 560 and 580 nm, bleached the lines corresponding to ring-$CS2$ and enhanced absorption lines of linear-$CS2$ Photoconversion mechanism is discussed.