In this work the time-resolved mode-mismatched thermal lens method is applied to investigate Cr(VI) species in water. An abnormal behavior of the thermal lens transient induced by a photochemical reaction was observed during optical excitation. With the purpose of better understanding this phenomenon, the existing theoretical model of thermal lens effect was generalized in order to take the time dependence of the absorbance of the sample into account due to the changes in concentration resulting from photochemical reaction and diffusion of absorbing species. Consequently, the photochemical reaction rate can be quantitatively evaluated by this technique with the generalized model. The adopted procedure demonstrates the usefulness of the time-resolved thermal lens method for the study of photochemical reactions under the presence of absorbing species diffusion with the advantage of monitoring the processes in a quantitative way and with a temporal resolution of a few milliseconds.
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