TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ceyman, Harald
A1  - Rosspeintner, Arnulf
A1  - Schreck, Maximilian H.
A1  - Mützel, Carina
A1  - Stoy, Andreas
A1  - Vauthey, Eric
A1  - Lambert, Christoph
T1  - Cooperative enhancement versus additivity of two-photon-absorption cross sections in linear and branched squaraine superchromophores
JF  - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
N2  - The linear and nonlinear optical properties of a series of oligomeric squaraine dyes were investigated by one-photon absorption spectroscopy (1PA) and two-photon absorption (2PA) induced fluorescence spectroscopy. The superchromophores are based on two indolenine squaraine dyes with transoid (SQA) and cisoid configuration (SQB). Using these monomers, linear dimers and trimers as well as star-shaped trimers and hexamers with benzene or triphenylamine cores were synthesised and investigated. The red-shifted and intensified 1PA spectra of all superchromophores could well be explained by exciton coupling theory. In the linear chromophore arrangements we also found superradiance of fluorescence but not in the branched systems. Furthermore, the 2PA showed enhanced cross sections for the linear oligomers but only additivity for the branched systems. This emphasizes that the enhancement of the 2PA cross section in the linear arrangements is probably caused by orbital interactions of higher excited configurations.
KW  - 2-photon absorption
KW  - Vibronic contributions
KW  - One-photon
KW  - Molecules
KW  - Intensity
KW  - Multibranched structures
KW  - Optical properties
KW  - Dyes
KW  - Chromophores
KW  - Design
Y1  - 2016
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-188299
VL  - 18
IS  - 24
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Endesfelder, Ulrike
A1  - Malkusch, Sebastian
A1  - Flottmann, Benjamin
A1  - Mondry, Justine
A1  - Liguzinski, Piotr
A1  - Verveer, Peter J.
A1  - Heilemann, Mike
T1  - Chemically Induced Photoswitching of Fluorescent Probes - A General Concept for Super-Resolution Microscopy
JF  - Molecules
N2  - We review fluorescent probes that can be photoswitched or photoactivated and are suited for single-molecule localization based super-resolution microscopy. We exploit the underlying photochemical mechanisms that allow photoswitching of many synthetic organic fluorophores in the presence of reducing agents, and study the impact of these on the photoswitching properties of various photoactivatable or photoconvertible fluorescent proteins. We have identified mEos2 as a fluorescent protein that exhibits reversible photoswitching under various imaging buffer conditions and present strategies to characterize reversible photoswitching. Finally, we discuss opportunities to combine fluorescent proteins with organic fluorophores for dual-color photoswitching microscopy.
KW  - Photoactivated localization microscopy
KW  - Fusion proteins
KW  - Molecules
KW  - Patterns
KW  - Switch
KW  - Limit
KW  - Time
KW  - photoswitchable organic fluorophores
KW  - fluorescent proteins
KW  - super-resolution
KW  - PALM
KW  - dSTORM
Y1  - 2011
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-134080
VL  - 16
IS  - 4
ER  -