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Time dependence of hole spectrum due to dispersive burning kinetics in dye-doped polymers.
Document Type
Article
Source
Journal of Chemical Physics. 12/1/1989, Vol. 91 Issue 11, p6579. 9p.
Subject
*POLYVINYL alcohol
*POLYMERS
*PHONONS
*CHEMICAL kinetics
Language
ISSN
0021-9606
Abstract
Time evolution of a persistent hole spectrum has been investigated for dyes doped in polyvinyl alcohol films at 2 K. The zero-phonon hole profile measured for resorufin using a single-mode dye laser has been found to be nearly Lorentzian even in the case of relatively deep holes. The observed fluence-dependent depth and width of the zero-phonon hole are reproduced well by the numerical simulation based on a dispersive burning-kinetics model. It is pointed out that a large distribution of the burning rate is responsible for the fluence-dependent hole broadening. Time evolution of the phonon-sideband hole simulated using the same model is also compared with the experimental data. It is shown that the low-energy sideband hole is enhanced when the burning kinetics is dispersive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]