Abstract

A theory is presented relating polarized fluorescence intensities to orientational order parameters and correlation functions for a probe reorienting in a mesophase with local uniaxial symmetry and a random distribution of directors in a plane perpendicular to the axis of a macroscopically cylindrical structure. The theory should be applicable, for example, to experiments on lyotropic hexagonal phases as well as on nerve membranes. Explicit results are given for probes with transition moments parallel or perpendicular to the molecular axis.

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