An investigation of vibrational dephasing mechanisms in hydrogen-bonded systems

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Reference M. Bonn, M.J.P. Brugmans, A.W. Kleyn, R.A. van Santen and H.J. Bakker: An investigation of vibrational dephasing mechanisms in hydrogen-bonded systems In: Femtochemistry : Ultrafast Chemical and Physical Processes in Molecular Systems, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 4-8, 1995 /ed. M. Chergui, World Scientific, 1996. - pp. 475-478
Group Ultrafast Spectroscopy

With transient IR hole-burning spectroscopy we observe large variations in the homogeneous linewidths of the O-D stretching mode of differently hydrogen-bonded deuterated zeolite hydroxyls. Different broadening mechanisms have to be taken into consideration to account for the observed linewidths.