Resonance femtosecond-stimulated Raman spectroscopy without actinic excitation showing low-frequency vibrational activity in the S2 state of all-trans β-carotene

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1216-1220

  Quick, Martin ^a   Dobryakov, Alexander L ^a   Kovalenko, Sergey A ^a   Ernsting, Nikolaus P ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

anharmonicities; electronic background; femtosecond stimulated Raman scattering; FSRS; mode mixing; vertical excitation

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC STATES; HEXANE; MIXING; PROBES; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; RESONANCE;

ANHARMONICITIES; ELECTRONIC BACKGROUND; FEMTOSECOND-STIMULATED RAMAN; FSRS; MODE MIXING; VERTICAL EXCITATION;

EXCITED STATES;

EID: 84926665843     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b00243     Document Type: Article

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