Abstract

We present ultrafast-depopulation-dynamics of higher-lying-excited-states using femtosecond fluorescence up-conversion techniques for two near-infrared (NIR) tricarbocyanine dyes (IR144 and IR140) in primary alcohols. With visible excitation wavelengths, such dyes show two distinct emission-bands with large peak wavelength difference: one at the visible region: S2 → S0, and the other at NIR region: S1 → S0. We show that exact band-positions, intensities, and fluorescence-decay-timescales (τ) depend strongly on viscosity and polarity of solvents. Interestingly, though the faster component of τ increased for IR144 with increasing viscosity and chain-length of alcohols, the reverse was seen for IR140, indicating the possible formation of ion-pair of IR140 with alcohols.

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