Abstract
Single rovibronic level excitation has been demonstrated for a molecule representing the statistical limit of a nonradiative electronic relaxation process. Resolution of the complex 1410 two-photon band of benzene was possible after elimination of the Doppler broadening in a Doppler-free two-photon absorption process with narrow bandwidth pulsed laser light and allowed for selective excitation of individual rotational states. Fluorescence decay measurements of these states under low pressure conditions display a pure exponential behavior and reveal that the nonradiative rate is independent of the rotational quantum numbers J, K for an electronic nonradiative relaxation process in the statistical limit. The decrease in lifetime found for perturbed states is attributed to the mixing with a background state containing quanta of an accepting mode.
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