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Two-photon absorption in rhodamine 6G occurring in concert with fluorescence depletion
Yoshinori Iketaki1, Takeshi Watanabe
1PRESTO Life Phenomena and Measurement Analysis Japan Science and Technology Agency 4-1-8, Honcho, Kawaguchi-shi, Saitama 332-0012 Japan, Olympus. y_iketaki@ot.olympus.co.jp
Abstract:
Using two-color fluorescence dip spectroscopy, we observed two-photon absorption processes (TPA) in Rhodamine 6G occurring in concert with fluorescence depletion processes (FD). A nano-second pulse erase beam in the near-infrared region was applied to induce TPA together with FD. It was found that the fluorescence intensity strongly depends on the photon-flux of the erase beam and that the effective TPA cross-section for the nano-second laser pulse is smaller than that for a femto-second laser pulse. This phenomenon can be interpreted as resulting from FD induced by a multiple-excitation process.
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