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The standard transient grating experiment enables to measure relaxation times longer than the laser pulse duration. We enumerate the different mechanisms which can be investigated and show how powerful this method is. A counter part is that one has to know much about the physics of the system in order to interpret the experimental results.
A second unconventional method of performing a four-wave mixing (FWM) experiment is sensitive to the coherence induced between states. In a two-level system, it measures transverse relaxation time T2 and allows a resolution time only limited by the coherence time of the laser, (which can be < 10fs). Our results obtained on a dye molecule, which is not a two-level system are not fully understood.
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Evesque, P. (1991). Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing Technique for Studying Very Fast Radiationless Processes in Very Short Time Scale. In: Di Bartolo, B. (eds) Advances in Nonradiative Processes in Solids. NATO ASI Series, vol 249. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4446-0_18
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