Femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy of the B850 antenna complex of Rhodobacter sphaeroides at room temperature
Article Abstract:
The B850 light-harvesting antenna complex of the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides has been examined using femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy. Excitation of the complex with low-intensity, femtosecond pulses results in changes in absorption and stimulated emission that initially depend on the excitation wavelength but later relax to a quasiequilibrium with a time constant of 100 plus or minus 20 fs. The initial light-induced signals were found to be consistent with coherent excitation of multiple exciton levels in an inhomogeneous ensemble of light-harvesting antenna complexes.
Publication Name: Journal of Physical Chemistry B
Subject: Chemicals, plastics and rubber industries
ISSN: 1520-6106
Year: 1999
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Light harvesting by carotenoids incorporated into the B850 light-harvesting complex from rhodobacter sphaeroides r-26: Excited state relaxation, ultrafast triplet formation and energy transfer to bacteriochlorophyll
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Spirilloxanthin and spheroidene are reconstituted into the carotenoidless B850 light-harvesting complex from the Rhodobacter sphaeroides R-26.1 mutant in order to obtain new insights in energy transfer, triplt formation and other relaxation phenomena in photosynthetic light harvesting.
Publication Name: Journal of Physical Chemistry B
Subject: Chemicals, plastics and rubber industries
ISSN: 1520-6106
Year: 2003
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Femosecond fluorescence depletion anisotropy: application to the B850 antenna complex of Rhodobacter sphaeroides
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The fluorescence depletion technique is used to measure femtosecond anistropy decays. The photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides is used.
Publication Name: Journal of Physical Chemistry B
Subject: Chemicals, plastics and rubber industries
ISSN: 1520-6106
Year: 2000
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