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Biophysical Journal 16: 87-91 (1976)
© 1976 the Biophysical Society
ABSTRACT
The yield of fluorescence in Chlorella from a 7 ns pulse of light is found to decrease gradually as a function of the number of hits in the photosynthetic units. The fivefold decrease in yield is spread over some three orders of magnitude of pulse energy and strongly suggests another random process in addition to that of photon absorption. Evidence supports the view that this random process is not in the time but in the spatial domain. The model used to fit the data is that of a unit with multiple traps for the singlet excitation. An excitation is captured by an open trap or destroyed by a filled trap with equal probability. These studies give evidence for the connectivity of the photosynthetic energy transfer apparatus on the short time scale. The short fluorescence lifetimes following picosecond pulse excitation of photosynthetic systems reported by several laboratories may be explained by the effect of multiple excitations.
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