Abstract
The determination of the absorption and emission spectra of strongly absorbing molecules is challenging, and the data can be biased by self-absorption of the fluorescence signal. To overcome this problem, a total internal reflection approach is proposed. The strongly absorbing sample is placed in an evanescent field of the radiation of a supercontinuum source. The collimated reflected light encodes the absorption spectrum, and the isotropic fluorescence emission is collected in a direction perpendicular to the surface at the same time. This ensures that the emitted light has a minimum possibility of self-absorption inside the sample.
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