We report herein unprecedented long-range observation of both formation and decay of the exciplex state in donor (D)−bridge (B)−acceptor (A) linked systems. Zinc porphyrins (ZnP) as a donor were tethered to single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) as an acceptor through oligo(pphenylene)s (ZnP−ph n −SWNT) or oligo(p-xylene)s (ZnP− xy n−1 −ph 1 −SWNT) with systematically varied lengths (n = 1− 5) to address the issue. Exponential dependencies of rate constants for the exciplex formation (k FEX ) and decay (k DEX ) on the edge-to-edge separation distance between ZnP and SWNT through the bridges were unambiguously derived from timeresolved spectroscopies. Distance dependencies (i.e., attenuation factor, β) of k FEX and k DEX in ZnP−ph n −SWNT were found to be considerably small (β = 0.10 for k FEX and 0.12 Å −1 for k DEX ) compared to those for charge separation and recombination (0.2−0.8 Å −1 ) in D−B−A systems with the same oligo(p-phenylene) bridges. The small β values may be associated with the exciplex state with mixed characters of charge-transfer and excited states. In parallel, the substantially nonconjugated bridge of oligo(p-xylene)s exhibited larger attenuation values (β = 0.12 for k FEX and 0.14 Å −1 for k DEX ). These results provide deep insight into the unique photodynamics of electronically strongly coupled D−B−A systems involving exciplex.