Decomposing the Excited State Dynamics of Carotenoids in Light Harvesting Complexes and Dissecting Pulse Structures from Optimal Control Experiments

Dispersed transient absorption and multi-pump spectroscopies were used to illustrate how the interplay between excited-state dynamics, saturation, and annihilation phenomena in the LH2 protein from Rhodopseudomonas acidophila generates structured pulses in optimal control experiments.