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Rotation-free transmission measurements governed by ground-state recovery of coumarin 102, coumarin 138 and coumarin 339 dyes in ethanol solutions were performed for the first time by pump-probe technique using 35 ps pulses of Nd:YAG laser at 355 nm. Recovery of absorption is characterized by simple exponential behaviour with relaxation times of 4.0, 3.7 and 3.0 ns respectively for C 102, C 138 and C 339. These values are comparable to the lifetimes of the first excited singlet states.
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Chandrasekhar, K., Inamdar, S.R., Dixit, M.N. et al. Ground-state recovery of coumarin dyes by pump-probe technique with picosecond pulses. Pramana - J Phys 39, 355–358 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02845819
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