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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A
Volume 107, Issue 40, Pages 8208-8214Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp030147n
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- NEI NIH HHS [R01 EY002051-27] Funding Source: Medline
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We have developed the technique of femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy (FSRS), which allows the rapid collection of high-resolution vibrational spectra on the femtosecond time scale. FSRS combines a sub-50 fs actinic pump pulse with a two-pulse stimulated Raman probe to obtain vibrational spectra whose frequency resolution limits are uncoupled from the time resolution. This allows the acquisition of spectra with < 100 fs time resolution and < 30 cm(-1) frequency resolution. Additionally, FSRS is unaffected by background fluorescence, provides rapid (100 ms) acquisition times, and exhibits traditional spontaneous Raman line shapes. FSRS is used here to study the relaxation dynamics of P-carotene. Following optical excitation to S-2 (1B(u)(+)) the molecule relaxes in 160 fs to S-1 (2A(g)(-)) and then undergoes two distinct stages of intramolecular vibrational energy redistribution (IVR) with 200 and 450 fs time constants. These processes are attributed to rapid (200 fs) distribution of the internal conversion energy from the S-1 C=C modes into a restricted bath of anharmonically coupled modes followed by complete IVR in 450 fs. FSRS is a valuable new technique for studying the vibrational structure of chemical reaction intermediates and transition states.
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