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Femtosecond Absorption Studies of the Primary Events in Bacterial Photosynthesis and Light- and Dark-Adapted Bacteriorhodopsin

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The ability to investigate ultrafast photophysics and photochemistry of reaction centers and antenna pigments of photosynthetic bacteria and of bacteriorhodopsin is a direct result of the advancing technology for the generation and the amplification of ultrashort light pulses [1]. The dual-beam femtosecond absorption spectrometer with which the data discussed here were obtained is described in detail elsewhere [2]. For our investigations of reaction centers and antenna pigments of photosynthetic bacteria, a tunable excitation beam was obtained by amplification [2–4] of a selected portion of a white-light continuum. For systems with several interacting chromophores, such as reaction centers, tunability of the excitation and the probe beams is equally as important as temporal resolution [3,5].

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  1. Laboratoire d’Optique Appliquée, Ecole Polytechnique, Ensta, Inserm U275, F-91128, Palaiseau Cedex, France

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  2. Service de Biophysique, CEN-Saclay, F-91191, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France

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Petrich, J.W., Breton, J., Martin, J.L. (1987). Femtosecond Absorption Studies of the Primary Events in Bacterial Photosynthesis and Light- and Dark-Adapted Bacteriorhodopsin. In: Kobayashi, T. (eds) Primary Processes in Photobiology. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 20. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72835-8_6

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