When the absorption of light from nanosecond laser pulses gives rise to a short-lived biphotonic fluorescence the lifetime of the crcitcd state can be derived from the dependence of the intensity of the fluorescence on the energy of the laser pulse. The results of investigations by Miller and Pfliig
Measurements of sub-nanosecond lifetimes by means of nanosecond laser pulses
โ Scribed by K. Razi Naqvi; D.K. Sharma; G.J. Hoytink
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1973
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 387 KB
- Volume
- 22
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0009-2614
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โฆ Synopsis
It is shown that the lifetimes of excited states of molecules which give a reasonably strong absorption (molar decndic estinction coefficient E > 1G4 hi-' cm-') at the frequency of the ruby laser can be determined from the UCUration of the optical transitions. This is illustrated for DDI (1, I'-diethyI-2,2'-dicarbocyaninc iodide) in glycrro1, which appears to have a lowest excited state with a lifetime of 110 psec. Thisvalue agrees fairly well with that c&ulnted from the formula for the rate of internal conversion derived from Siebrand's work. Under favourable conditions lifetimes as short as 10 psec can be measured.
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