Broadband excitation-emission Fourier-transform spectroscopy of single molecules at ambient conditions (Conference Presentation)

Antonio Perri; Erling Thyrhaug; Stefan Krause; Fabrizio Preda; Jürgen Hauer; Giulio Cerullo; Tom Vosch; Dario Polli

doi:10.1117/12.2290589

14 March 2018 Broadband excitation-emission Fourier-transform spectroscopy of single molecules at ambient conditions (Conference Presentation)

Antonio Perri, Erling Thyrhaug, Stefan Krause, Fabrizio Preda, Jürgen Hauer, Giulio Cerullo, Tom Vosch, Dario Polli

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Proceedings Volume 10500, Single Molecule Spectroscopy and Superresolution Imaging XI; 105000J (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2290589
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2018, San Francisco, California, United States

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Single molecule (SM) fluorescence spectroscopy has proven to be a powerful, noninvasive tool in life science, materials science, and photophysics. Here we present an innovative approach to SM fluorescence spectroscopy, able to collect two-dimensional excitation-emission (2D-EEM) maps rapidly and under ambient conditions. If emission occurs from the initially excited state, excitation spectra are equivalent to absorption spectra and are sensitive to couplings of the SM with the local environment or other molecules. The high signal to noise ratio of the measurements presented in this work allow for a characterization of molecular properties on electronic ground and excited states. Among such properties are reorganization energies, the strength of system-bath interaction as well as vibrational anharmonicity constants. As a result, excitation/emission spectra provide unique insight into SMs, beyond effects related to inhomogeneity which are unavoidable in ensemble measurements. Our approach to SM 2D-EEM is based on Fourier-transform spectroscopy. We employ an innovative, compact, fast, versatile and highly stable common-path interferometer based on birefringent crystals. It generates two phase-locked replicas of the excitation light without the need for active stabilization or auxiliary tracking beams. It provides adjustable excitation wavelength resolution (down to the sub-nm range). We collected sixty SM 2D-EEM maps from terrylene diimide dye with data quality equal to bulk spectra obtained with commercial absorption spectrometers. Based on statistical analysis, we discuss the distribution of spectral shapes of individual molecules due to a combination of intrinsic molecular variety and different interactions of the molecules with their local environment.

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Antonio Perri, Erling Thyrhaug, Stefan Krause, Fabrizio Preda, Jürgen Hauer, Giulio Cerullo, Tom Vosch, and Dario Polli "Broadband excitation-emission Fourier-transform spectroscopy of single molecules at ambient conditions (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 10500, Single Molecule Spectroscopy and Superresolution Imaging XI, 105000J (14 March 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2290589

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Molecules

Molecular interactions

Molecular spectroscopy

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