Picosecond kinetics and reverse saturable absorption of meso-substituted tetrabenzoporphyrins Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • The mechanism of reverse saturable absorption of meso-substituted tetrabenzoporphyrins was studied by means of picosecond transient spectroscopy. Characteristic 1(,*), 3(,*), and (d,d) transitions have been observed. The kinetics of the excited states vary with metal substitution. The nonlinear transmission of benzoporphyrins was measured, and the excited-state absorption was determined to be the dominant optical limiting mechanism. The results agreed very well with a five-level model. 1996 American Chemical Society.

published proceedings

  • JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY

author list (cited authors)

  • Chen, P. L., Tomov, I. V., Dvornikov, A. S., Nakashima, M., Roach, J. F., Alabran, D. M., & Rentzepis, P. M.

citation count

  • 64

complete list of authors

  • Chen, PL||Tomov, IV||Dvornikov, AS||Nakashima, M||Roach, JF||Alabran, DM||Rentzepis, PM

publication date

  • January 1996