Figure 2: Ultrafast optical absorption spectroscopy.

Clockwise: (a) Transient optical absorption spectra of [1RuII=1CoIII] excited at 400 nm as a function of pump-probe time delay. (b) Transient absorption spectra at three pump-probe time delays: 150 fs, and 2 and 25 ps. (c) The three decay-associated spectra DAS1, DAS2 and DAS3 returned by the global analysis fitting procedure (GA-fit). (d) Kinetic traces over the first 25 ps at three different probe wavelengths: 460, 540 and 625 nm.