Vibrational coherence of DCl in cryogenic matrices: from van der Waals interaction to weak hydrogen bond
Claudine Crépin, Michel Broquier, Arnaud Cuisset +4 more
The influence of the environment on vibrational dynamics, and especially on the vibrational dephasing time, is investigated for a simple system : DCl in a van der Waals solid (N2 lattice). Photon echo experiments are performed using the infrared free electron laser CLIO. In solid nitrogen, decay times of the third order polarization are in the picosecond range. In the case of the isolated DCl monomers in van der Waals interaction with the host, the observed signals are interpreted in term of a rapid spectral diffusion. The two different stretching modes of DCl dimers, perturbed in a different way by the weak hydrogen bond, exhibit different coherence times, reflecting the influence of the interaction strength between the molecules.
Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE•Nov 1, 2002•0 citations