Optimization of the double pump-probe technique: Decoupling the triplet yield and cross section

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Volumn 116, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 4833-4841

  Peceli, Davorin ^a   Webster, Scott ^a   Fishman, Dmitry A ^a   Cirloganu, Claudiu M ^a   Hu, Honghua ^a   Przhonska, Olga V ^a,b   Kurdyukov, Vladimir V ^c   Slominsky, Yurii L ^c   Tolmachev, Alexey I ^c   Kachkovski, Alexey D ^c   Dasari, Raghunath R ^d   Barlow, Stephen ^d   Marder, Seth R ^d   Hagan, David J ^a   Van Stryland, Eric W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

^c INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Ukraine)

^d GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS SECTION; EXCITATION WAVELENGTH; EXCITED STATE ABSORPTION; EXPERIMENTAL PARAMETERS; GROUND STATE ABSORPTION; INITIAL CONDITIONS; PHOTO-INDUCED DECOMPOSITION; PUMP FLUENCE; PUMP-PROBE EXPERIMENTS; PUMP-PROBE METHODS; PUMP-PROBE TECHNIQUE; RATE EQUATIONS; REVERSE SATURABLE ABSORPTION; SATURABLE ABSORPTION; SPECTRAL REGION; TRANSITION RATES; TRIPLET STATE; TWO-PUMP; UNSTABLE MOLECULES; VALID ASSUMPTION;

OPTIMIZATION; PROBES;

PUMPS;

EID: 84861512868     PISSN: 10895639     EISSN: 15205215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp301051u     Document Type: Article

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