The mechanisms for excitation and energy relaxation of charge carriers
over times approximately 100 fs in a C60 film have been studied by fe
mtosecond laser spectroscopy. The absorption was studied as a function
of the laser beam intensity. An increase in the absorption, with a pe
ak at vanishingly small delay times, gives way to an electronic-vibrat
ional relaxation with time scales tau1 approximately 1 ps and tau2 app
roximately 30 ps.