Irreversible photoionization geminate recombination

If one studies only the fluorescence quenching by irreversible bimolecular ionization (3.52), there is seldom any need to trace the fate of the charged products. On the contrary, those who are interested in photoinduced geminate recombination (3.188) rarely care about the kinetics of ionization, its quenching radius, and all the rest studied in Section III. All that they need to obtain the charge separation yield is the initial ion distribution mo(r), prepared by photoionization. However, the latter is scarcely so simple as in Eq. (3.201), which is usually favored. Even so, the initial separation ro is not a fitting parameter but the characteristic interion distance, which is dependent on the precursor reaction of photoionization. 

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