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Recent studies of the vibrational energy relaxation of molecules dispersed in cryogenic rare gas and nitrogen matrices are reviewed. They have been carried out using either benchtop tunable IR lasers or the Orsay Free Electron Laser Clio. They include laser–induced vibrational fluorescence and pump–probe studies of NO and O 2 in solid Ar and Kr, vibrational stimulated emission of 13 CO 2 in argon, and picosecond pump–probe and IR photon echoes of W(CO) 6 in Ar and N 2. Vibrational relaxation times range from 30 min for O 2 (v = 1) in the Ar matrix to 20 ps for the T 1U CO stretching mode of tungsten hexacarbonyl in solid nitrogen, reflecting a variety of radiative and radiationless processes.
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Dubost, H. Picosecond to Minute Molecular Vibrational Dynamics in Cryosolids. Journal of Low Temperature Physics 111, 615–628 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022209819700
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