Development of a narrow-band tunable picosecond dye laser and its application to excited-state lifetime measurement of a chlorinated aromatic hydrocarbon.
The development of a distributed-feedback dye laser, with a pulse width and a line width of 25 ps and 8.78 pm, respectively, is described. Using this nearly Fourier-transform-limited pulse, we measured the first singlet-excited-state lifetime of 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene. The tunable picosecond dye laser developed herein has a potential for the lifetime measurement and the efficient multiphoton ionization of aromatic hydrocarbons with a larger number of chlorine atoms and shorter excited-state lifetimes.
Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University, 6-10-1, Hakozaki, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan.
Tomohiro
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Uchimura
Takayuki
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Deguchi
Totaro
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Imasaka