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Ultrafast dynamics of the solvent-solute interaction measured by femtosecond four-wave mixing: LD690 in n-alcohols

✍ Scribed by C.J. Bardeen; C.V. Shank


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1994
Tongue
English
Weight
654 KB
Volume
226
Category
Article
ISSN
0009-2614

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✦ Synopsis


The fast dynamics of the oxaxine dye LD690 in a series of n-alcohols are investigated using several techniques, including linear absorption, resonance Raman, and the femtosecond three-pulse photon echo. The systematic variation in the dynamics as one goes from methanol to I-pentanol can be explained in terms of processes stationary on the femtosecond timescale (inhomogeneous broadening) and a fast process with a solvation correlation function M(t) =sech*( t/E) where rc=20 fs. The relative contributions of the fast and slow processes to the spectral broadening change as we increase the alcohol chain length.