The Excited State Absorption Spectrum of Tris(acetylacetonato)chromium(III).

Standoff alpha radiation detection via excited state absorption of air

Optimization of optical limiting devices based on excited-state absorption.

Limiting devices protect sensitive optical elements from laser-induced damage (LID). Passive devices use focusing optics to concentrate the light through a nonlinear optical (NLO) element (or elements) to reduce the limiting threshold. Unfortunately, these NLO elements may themselves undergo LID for high inputs, restricting the useful dynamic range (DR). Recently, efforts at optimizing this DR ...

Excited state electron transfer after visible light absorption by the Co(I) state of vitamin B12.

The first example of excited state electron transfer from cob(I)alamin is reported herein. Vitamin B12 was anchored to a mesoporous TiO2 thin film and electrochemically reduced to the cob(I)alamin form. Pulsed laser excitation resulted in rapid excited state electron transfer, ket > 10(8) s(-1), followed by microsecond interfacial charge recombination to re-form cob(I)alamin. The supernucleophi...

Temperature-Dependent Excited State Absorption in DNA and LNA Oligomers Supports an Emerging Model of Excited State Dynamics in DNA

Transient absorption measurements of excited states in DNA and LNA were performed using a femtosecond pump-probe arrangement with excitation at 266 nm and absorption monitored at 400 nm while varying the sample temperature between 5 °C and 70 °C. Samples consisted of adenine monophosphate monomer, polyadenine 12-mer in singlestranded form, and polyadenine 12-mer in hybridized form. Excited stat...

Microscopic Parameters in the Excited State of Toluene and Some of Its Haloderavatives

The Ultraviolet-visible (UV) spectra of toluene, ortho-bromo and para-bromo toluene in different solvents have been studied. The electric dipole moments and polarizabilities in the molecular excited electronic states were determined. It was found that the electric dipole moments for the excited states (µ*) and the ground states (µ) of these compounds are equal, and the change in dipole moment i...