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Frequency-Domain Lifetime Measurements

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Principles of Fluorescence Spectroscopy

Abstract

In the preceding chapter we described the theory and instrumentation for measuring fluorescence intensity decays using time-domain measurements. In the present chapter we continue this discussion, but we now consider the alternative method called frequency-domain (FD) fluorometry. In this method the sample is excited with light which is intensity-modulated at a high frequency comparable to the reciprocal of the lifetime. When this is done, the emission is also intensity-modulated at the same frequency. However, the emission does not precisely follow the excitation but rather shows time delays and amplitude changes which are determined by the intensity decay law of the sample. To be more precise, the time delay is measured as a phase-angle shift between the excitation and emission, as was shown in Figure 4.2. The peak-to-peak height of the modulated emission is decreased relative to that of the modulated excitation and provides another independent measure of the lifetime.

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