Primary photo-events in a metastable photomerocyanine of spirooxazines

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 293-304

  Sai Santosh Kumar, R ^a   Lüer, Larry ^b   Polli, Dario ^a,c   Garbugli, Michele ^c   Lanzani, Guglielmo ^a,c  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTO MADRILEÑO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS EN NANOCIENCIA IMDEA NANOCIENCIA   (Spain)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANHARMONICITIES; COHERENT OSCILLATIONS; CONICAL INTERSECTION; DESIGN RULES; EXCITED-STATE LIFETIME; GEOMETRIC RELAXATION; MEROCYANINE; NON-ADIABATIC; PHOTO-INDUCED; PUMP-AND-PROBE; RELAXATION DYNAMICS; RING-CLOSURE; SPIROOXAZINES; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; ULTRA-FAST; EXCITED STATE LIFETIMES; EXCITED STATE RELAXATION; SPECTRAL RELAXATIONS;

MERCURY COMPOUNDS; GROUND STATE; RINGS (COMPONENTS);

EXCITED STATES;

EID: 84862228875     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.1.000293     Document Type: Article

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