Photon echo studies of photosynthetic light harvesting

Photosynthesis Research

Volumn 101, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 233-243

  Read, Elizabeth L ^a,b,c   Lee, Hohjai ^a,b   Fleming, Graham R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

2D Fourier transform photon echo spectroscopy; Electronic quantum coherence; FMO; LH3; Photon echo; Photon echo peak shift; Reaction center; Spectral band broadening

Indexed keywords

FOURIER ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; PHOTON; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SPECTROSCOPY;

FOURIER ANALYSIS; PHOTONS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 72149096806     PISSN: 01668595     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11120-009-9464-9     Document Type: Review

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