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The action of powerful pulsed picosecond radiation from a Nd: YAG laser (λ=530 nm, pulse energy: 0.01 J, intensity: 2GW/cm2) and an argon laser (λ=515 nm, power: 50 mW) on protoporphyrin-IX dimethylether in three solvents (trichlormethane, carbon tetrachloride, dioxane) has been studied. Under continuous irradiation the quantum yield and resulting products do not differ materially from the ones produced under mercury lamp irradiation. When irradiation is performed by powerful laser pulses of picosecond duration the quantum yield of photodecomposition of protoporphyrin-IX dimethylether inereases substantially: by 10 in dioxane, by 4 in carbon tetrachloride and by 100 in trichlormethane. It is assumed that a quite different mechanism of multistep excitation is responsible for photodecomposition under powerful picosecond pulses.
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Karu, T.I., Kryukov, P.G., Letokhov, V.S. et al. High quantum yield of photochemical reactions of protoporphyrin-IX induced by powerful ultrashort laser pulses. Appl. Phys. 24, 245–247 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00899765
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