Photosynthesis is a highly optimized process from which valuable lessons can be learned
about the operating principles in nature. Its primary steps involve energy transport operating …

The transport of excitation energy in molecular aggregates is of crucial importance for the
function of organic optoelectronic devices and next‐generation solar cells. First, this review …

Chlorophylls and bacteriochlorophylls, together with carotenoids, serve, noncovalently
bound to specific apoproteins, as principal light-harvesting and energy-transforming …

Absorption of sunlight is the first step in photosynthesis, which provides energy for the vast
majority of organisms on Earth. The primary processes of photosynthesis have been studied …

The invention of the laser in 1960 gave us the ruby laser, which generally produced chaotic
pulses of light. Six years later, in 1966, a concept called passive mode-locking applied to …

We have developed a broad bandwidth two-dimensional electronic spectrometer that
operates shot-to-shot at repetition rates up to 100 kHz using an acousto-optic pulse shaper …

Fucoxanthin–chlorophyll protein (FCP) is the key molecular complex performing the light-
harvesting function in diatoms, which, being a major group of algae, are responsible for up …

The antenna complex of green sulfur bacteria, the chlorosome, is one of the most efficient
supramolecular systems for efficient long-range exciton transfer in nature. Femtosecond …

We present two-dimensional electronic-vibrational (2DEV) spectra of isolated chlorophyll a
and b in deuterated ethanol. We excite the Q-band electronic transitions and measure the …

The role of quantum coherence in photochemical functions of molecular systems such as
photosynthetic complexes is a broadly debated topic. Coexistence and intermixing of …