title: Excited-state absorption of a bipyridyl platinum(II) complex with alkynyl-benzothiazolylfluorene units.
abstract: The singlet excited-state lifetime of a bipyridyl platinum(II) complex containing two alkynyl-benzothiazolylfluorene units was determined to be 145+/-105 ps by fitting femtosecond transient difference absorption data, and the triplet quantum yield was measured to be 0.14. A ground-state absorption cross section of 6.1 x 10(-19) cm(2) at 532 nm was deduced from UV-visible absorption data. Excited-state absorption cross sections of (6.7+/-0.1) x 10(-17) cm(2) (singlet) and (4.6+/-0.1) x 10(-16) cm(2) (triplet) were obtained by using a five-level dynamic model to fit open-aperture Z scans at picosecond and nanosecond pulse widths and a variety of pulse energies. For this complex, the ratio of the triplet excited-state absorption cross section to the ground-state absorption cross section--long used as a figure of merit for reverse saturable absorbers--thus stands at 754, to our knowledge the largest ever reported at 532 nm wavelength.
authors.affiliation: U. S. Army Research Laboratory, RDRL-SEE-M, 2800 Powder Mill Road, Adelphi, Maryland 20783-1197, USA. timothy.pritchett1@us.army.mil
authors.forename: Timothy M
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authors.lastname: Pritchett
authors.forename: Wenfang
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authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Bingguang
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Michael J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Ferry
authors.forename: Yunjing
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authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Joy E
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authors.lastname: Haley
authors.forename: David M
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authors.lastname: Mackie
authors.forename: William
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authors.lastname: Shensky
authors.forename: Andrew G
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authors.lastname: Mott