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Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Vol.103, No.16, 2907-2911, 1999
Interference of optical coherent transients in pentacene/p-terphenyl: Femtosecond beats probed by correlated fluorescence fluctuations
By using two-pulse excitation with phase-randomized pulses in an interferometer and analyzing the variance of the fluctuating fluorescence intensity, femtosecond beatings have been observed in the binary crystal pentacene/p-terphenyl, P/pTP at low phonon temperatures. The THz oscillations evolve from fluctuating quantum interferences prepared by the coherent superposition of different, electronic transition dipoles in spatially different constituents (O1-O4) of the pentacene impurity. The polarization beats can be explained by a model of uncoupled two-level systems including inhomogeneous dephasing as the predominant coherence relaxational pathway.
Keywords:WAVE-PACKET INTERFEROMETRY;PHASE-LOCKED PULSES;PHOTON-ECHOES;MOLECULES;EXCITATION;SPECTROSCOPY;RELAXATION;CRYSTALS;DYNAMICS;IONIZATION