Ultrafast Configurational Relaxation of Optically Excited Color Centers
- 7 December 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 47 (23) , 1668-1671
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.47.1668
Abstract
The configurational relaxation time for the center in KCl: Li has been measured with use of picosecond laser techniques. The saddle-point configuration of the electronically excited state is stabilized by means of multiphonon emission, and has a zero-temperature lifetime of 13 psec.
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