Brief Communications

Investigation of energy transfer in photosynthetic organisms

V. Z. Pashchenko, S. P. Protasov, A. B. Rubin, L. B. Rubin


Abstract: An experimental investigation was made of energy transfer processes in various photosynthetic organisms. The results indicated that the transfer mechanism was resonant. The duration of the fluorescence emitted from specimens of reaction centers in purple bacteria was 15 psec.

UDC: 535.371:621.378.325

PACS: 87.50.Eg, 82.50.-m

Received: 06.07.1976

 English version: Soviet Journal of Quantum Electronics, 1977, 7:3, 372–374