RESOLUTION OF THE FLUORESCENCE LIFETIMES IN A HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEM BY PHASE AND MODULATION MEASUREMENTS
RESOLUTION OF THE FLUORESCENCE LIFETIMES IN A HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEM BY PHASE AND MODULATION MEASUREMENTS
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DOI:
10.1021/j150608a006
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发表时间:
1981-01-01
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WEBER, G
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作者:
WEBER, G
A closed-form procedure is described for the determination of the decay constants and the relativecontributing intensities of the N independent components of a heterogeneous fluorescence emission employing measurements of the phase shift and relative modulation of the total fluorescence at N appropriateharmonic excitation frequencies. At each frequency the phase and modulation measurements yield the real part of the Fourier transform of the fluorescence impulse response, G, and its imaginary part, S. It is shown that the moments of a distribution of the lifetimes are linear combinations of the Gs (zero and even moments) or the Ss (odd moments), and the rule for the construction of the coefficients of G and S in these linear combinations is derived. The classical de Prony method is used to obtain the lifetimes and fractional contributionsof the components from the moments. For binary and ternary mixtures the numerical computations required are trivial. In the present state of the art, the lifetimes of the components of a binary mixture should be derivable with a loss in precisionsomewhat smaller than 1 order of magnitude with respect to the overall measured lifetimes.