Abstract

Fluorescence in complex photophysical and photochemical systems frequently exhibits complex nonexponential kinetics which cannot be adequately described in terms of a single- to triple-exponential decay law. Advances in the experimental technique and decay data processing methods stimulated the progress from the model-based analysis of fluorescence decays to a number of methods for the recovery of underlying decay time distributions from time-resolved data with minimum a priori assumptions on the decay law.

© 1998 IEEE