Polarized fluorescent emission in uniaxial liquid crystals. The effect of intramolecular energy transfer and rotational Brownian motion on measurements of the orientational distribution function

An expression is derived for the anisotropic fluorescent emission in uniaxial liquid crystals where fluorescent sites governed by an initial nonrandom distribution of orientations are subject to rotational Brownian motion. The possibility of nonparallelism of absorption and emission oscillators is also considered. The Journal of Chemical Physics is copyrighted by The American Institute of Physics. Original language English Journal Journal of Chemical Physics Volume 69 Issue number 2 Pages (from-to) 519-524 ISSN 0021-9606 DOIs https://doi.org/10.1063/1.436642 Publication status Published - 1978 Bibliographical note Copyright (1978) American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics.