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Fluorescence spectroscopy is a powerful tool for the study of the reactivity of chemical and biological systems The fluorescence spectrum, the fluorescence quantum yield, and the fluorescence lifetime of a chromophore depend on its microenvironment and the solute-solvent interactions Fluorescence lifetimes also depend on the kinetics of possible chemical reactions Fluorescence measurements in the time domain thus provide detailed information about intraand inter-molecular photophysical and photochemical processes During the past 30 years the development of laser sources and ultrafast techniques has opened new ways for the study of the fluorescent excited states of molecules in the nano-, pico-, and femtosecond time range When analyzing the rise and the decay (often multi-exponential) of their fluorescence intensity as a function of time, the pre-exponential factors and the fluorescence time constants have to be determined accurately after a careful deconvolution using a computer-based algorithm Several techniques are used: phase modulation spectroscopy with a modulated laser pump source on a time scale comparable to the decay times of interest, time-correlated single photon counting under picosecond laser excitation (alternatively nanosecond flashlamp excitation), ultra-fast streak cameras designed for the conversion of time dependent light emission into distance dependent electron impact on a phosphor screen Because a sufficient resolution is not accessible with those techniques for the measurement of fast decays in the 50 fs-100 ps range, fluorescence up-conversion in nonlinear optical crystals is the technique of choice.
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Mialocq, JC., Gustavsson, T. (2001). Investigation of Femtosecond Chemical Reactivity by Means of Fluorescence Up-Conversion. In: Valeur, B., Brochon, JC. (eds) New Trends in Fluorescence Spectroscopy. Springer Series on Fluorescence, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56853-4_4
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