Abstract

The characteristic timescales of the solvent-solute interaction are of great interest to those studying the spectroscopy and reaction dynamics of molecules in condensed phases. These timescales influence a variety of linear and non-linear spectroscopic measurements, and together these different types of measurements should constrain the quantitative values of the interaction parameters. In this work we use both linear (absorption and fluorescence) and non-linear (resonance raman and femtosecond time-resolved 4-wave-mixing) spectroscopies to systematically investigate the spectral broadening of the dye molecule LD690 in a series of n-alcohols.

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