Singlet-singlet annihilation is used to study exciton delocalization in the light harvesting antenna complex LH2 (B800-B850) from the photosynthetic purple bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides. The characteristic femtosecond decay constants of the high intensity isotropic and the low intensity anisotropy kinetics of the B850 ring are related to the hopping time τₕ and the coherence length Ncoh of the exciton. Our analysis yields Ncoh0ex0ex=0ex0ex2.8±0.4 and τₕ0ex0ex=0ex0ex0.27±0.05ps. This approach can be seen as an extension to the concept of the spectroscopic ruler.
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Trinkūnas et al. (2001) studied this question.