An important goal in single molecule fluorescence correlation spectroscopy is the theoretical simulation of the fluorescence signal stemming from individual molecules and its autocorrelation function. The simulation approaches developed up to now are based exclusively on continuous-wave (cw) illumination and consequently on cw-excitation. However, this approximation is no longer valid in the case of two-photon excitation, for which pulsed illumination is usually employed. We present a novel theoretical model for the simulation of the fluorescence signal of single molecules and its autocorrelation function with consideration of the time dependence of the excitation flux and thus of all illumination-dependent photoprocesses: two-photon excitation, induced emission and photobleaching. Further important characteristics of our approach are the consideration of the dependence of the photobleaching rate on illumination and the low intersystem-crossing rates of the studied coumarins. Moreover, using our approach, we can predict quantitatively the effect of the laser pulse width on the fluorescence signal of a molecule, that is, the contributions of the photobleaching and saturation effects, and thus we can calculate the optimal laser pulse width. The theoretical autocorrelation functions were fitted to the experimental data, and we could ascertain a good agreement between the resulting and the expected parameters. The most important parameter is the photobleaching constant sigma, the cross section of the transition Sn<--S1, which characterises the photostability of the molecules independent of the experimental conditions. Its value is 1.7 x 10(-23) cm2 for coumarin 153 and 5 x 10(-23) cm2 for coumarin 314. 相似文献
Optical methods are appropriate tools to detect organic micro-pollutants in fluids. A new technique is introduced which uses the decay of interaction processes like fluorescence and elastically scattered radiation by a fluid. Principally two different parameters are determined:
1. (i) the decay-time of the conventional interaction τC, which occurs at relatively short path-lengths of the incidence beam in the fluid, and
2. (ii) the decay-time τMP of the multi-path-saturation interaction originating at long path-lengths, e.g. in multi-path-reflection cuvettes, where the incidence beam is fully absorbed by the fluid.
A relation between the decay-time and the absorption coefficient of a fluid is theoretically derived. A simple preliminary experiment is performed considering distilled water polluted with non-fluorescent azobenzene and fluorescent quinine-sulphate. A nitrogen laser has been used to generate the fluorescence and scattering signals. The reciprocal value of the difference between the decay-time of the multi-path and conventional signals, 1/(τMP − τC), yields the total absorption coefficient directly. In comparison to the conventional absorption technique the decay-time method is characterized by a higher sensitivity. 相似文献
We report the synthesis of single‐crystalline and near‐monodispersed NaMF3 (M=Mn, Co, Ni, Mg), LiMAlF6 (M=Ca, Sr), and NaMgF3:Yb,Er nanocrystals (quasisquare nanoplates, nanorods, and nanopolygons) by the cothermolysis of multiple trifluoroacetates in hot combined organic solvents (oleic acid, oleylamine, and 1‐octadecene). The nanocrystals were characterized by XRD, TEM, superconductive quantum interference device (SQUID), and upconversion luminescence spectroscopy. By regulating the polarity of the dispersant, the NaMF3 (M=Mn, Co, Ni) nanoplates were partially aligned to form nanoarrays on copper TEM grids. The sizes of the NaMF3 nanocrystals were easily tuned by the use of proper synthetic conditions such as reaction temperature and time and solvent composition. On the basis of a series of experiments in which the reaction conditions were varied, together with GC–MS and FTIR analysis, the reaction pathways for the formation of these nanocrystals from trifluoroacetate precursors were proposed. The magnetic measurements showed that the differently sized NaMnF3 square plates displayed interesting weak ferromagnetic behavior on the nanometer scale. The strong red upconversion luminescence emitted from the NaMgF3:Yb,Er nanorods under 980‐nm near‐IR laser excitation suggests that NaMgF3 may be a good candidate host material for red upconversion luminescence. 相似文献