We report on a picosecond spectroscopic study of the dynamical Stokes
shift of fluoroprobe in the lowest excited state in the solvents dieth
ylether and ethylacetate. Time-resolved emission spectra with a time-r
esolution of approximately 10 ps are presented. The spectra reflect dy
namical Stokes shifts of a few thousand wave numbers within 10-100 ps
after the pulsed laser excitation. The time-dependent shifts are repre
sentative of the solvation dynamics of fluoroprobe in diethylether and
ethylacetate.