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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-2-10
pubmed:abstractText
We present the study of the excited state absorption of Hematoporphyrin IX dissolved in dimethyl sulfoxide. All measurements were carried out using open aperture Z-scan and white-light continuum pump-probe with picosecond pulses to avoid triplet excited state absorption. Without the latter contribution, the results obtained with both techniques show a transition to a high singlet excited state. The vibronic progression of the Q-band is observed due to photobleaching of the ground state. In addition, we show that the excited state presents reverse saturable absorption for most of the spectral range studied. A long relaxation component of the first singlet excited state was evidenced with the pump-probe experiment. This result is in agreement with fluorescence lifetime and fluorescence quantum yield measurements. In order to elucidate the origin of the nonlinear effects, we used a three-level energy diagram to describe the principal singlet-singlet transitions.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
1573-4994
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
20
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
197-202
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Excited state absorption study in hematoporphyrin IX.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Chemistry, University of Central Florida, P.O. Box 162366, Orlando, FL 32816, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article