Fig. 5.

Laguerre and multiexponential deconvolution of the excitation laser pulse (solid black) from a measured fluorescence decay from 9/CA in ethanol at 445 nm (solid gray). The estimated fluorescence decays (dotted black) overlap the measured fluorescence decay. The residuals indicate excellent fit between the measured and the estimated fluorescence decays. The estimated IRF using both methods present very similar decay characteristics.