Excited-state dynamics of rhodopsin probed by femtosecond fluorescence spectroscopy

Abstract Nonexponential fluorescence dynamics of bovine rhodopsin were measured at various wavelengths from 530 to 780 nm. No dynamic Stokes shift was detected but the fastest part of the fluorescence at both blue and red sides of the spectrum decayed faster than that at the center, which has led to the conclusion that the Franck–Condon state→fluorescence state conversion occurs within time-resolution of apparatus (