
24 Typical Applications
The luminescence light is detected the same way as for fluorescence decay measurement. The
reference pulses for the DPC-230 are obtained from a second output of the DDG-200 pulse
generator.
For microsecond lifetime measurement the DPC-230 is operated in the multiscaler mode. The
system parameters are shown in Fig. 32. The other parameters are the same as for fluorescence
decay measurement. A typical result is shown in Fig. 33.
Fig. 32: System parameters for microsecond-luminescence decay measurement
Fig. 33: Luminescence decay recorded with the system parameters shown in Fig. 32. Left: Logarithmic scale.
Right: Linear scale
Fluorescence Correlation
Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) is based on exciting a small number of mole-
cules in a femtoliter volume and correlating the fluctuations of the fluorescence intensity. The
fluctuations are caused by diffusion, rotation, intersystem crossing, conformational changes,
or other random effects. The required femtoliter volume can be obtained one-photon excita-
tion and confocal detection or by two-photon excitation. The technique dates back to a work
of Magde, Elson and Webb published in 1972 [20]. Theory and applications of FCS are de-
scribed in [8, 27, 28, 29, 30].
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