Time-Resolved Terahertz Spectroscopy of Condensed Phase Reactions

Ultrafast time-resolved visible-pump, far-IR (THz) probe spectroscopy has been developed in our lab and has been applied to study carrier dynamics in photoexcited GaAs and dipole solvation dynamics in betaine and p-nitroaniline. This type of spectroscopy enables us to study for the first time the nonequilibrium interaction between excited electronic states and low frequency vibrational modes.