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An exciton-polariton laser based on biologically produced fluorescent protein

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Date
19/08/2016
Author
Dietrich, Christof Peter
Steude, Anja
Tropf, Laura Christine
Schubert, Marcel
Kronenberg, Nils Michael
Ostermann, Kai
Hoefling, Sven
Gather, Malte Christian
Keywords
Polariton
Bose-Einstein
Condensation
Fluorescent protein
Laser
QC Physics
QH301 Biology
DAS
BDC
R2C
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Abstract
Under adequate conditions, cavity-polaritons form a macroscopic coherent quantum state, known as polariton condensate (PC). Compared to Wannier-Mott polaritons in inorganic semiconductors, the localized Frenkel polaritons in organic emitter materials show weaker interaction with each other but stronger coupling to light, which recently enabled the first realization of a PC at room temperature. However, this required ultrafast optical pumping which limits the applications of organic PCs. Here, we demonstrate room-temperature PCs of cavity-polaritons in simple laminated microcavities filled with the biologically produced enhanced green fluorescent protein (eGFP). The unique molecular structure of eGFP prevents exciton annihilation even at high excitation densities, thus facilitating PCs under conventional nanosecond pumping. Condensation is clearly evidenced by a distinct threshold, an interaction-induced blueshift of the condensate, long-range coherence and the presence of a second threshold at higher excitation density which is associated with the onset of photon lasing.
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Dietrich , C P , Steude , A , Tropf , L C , Schubert , M , Kronenberg , N M , Ostermann , K , Hoefling , S & Gather , M C 2016 , ' An exciton-polariton laser based on biologically produced fluorescent protein ' , Science Advances , vol. 2 , no. 8 , e1600666 , pp. 1-7 . https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1600666
Publication
Science Advances
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1600666
ISSN
2375-2548
Type
Journal article
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2016 © The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY).
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We thank A. Clemens (TU Dresden, Germany) for technical support with protein preparation and C. Murawski (U St Andrews, UK) for support with TDAF deposition. We acknowledge support from the ERC Starting Grant ABLASE (640012), the Scottish Funding Council (via SUPA), the European Union Marie Curie Career Integration Grant (PCIG12-GA-2012-334407), studentship funding through the EPSRC CM-DTC (EP/L015110/1) and the EPSRC Hybrid Polaritonics program grant (EP/M025330/1). S.H. gratefully acknowledges support by the Royal Society and the Wolfson Foundation and M.S. gratefully acknowledges support from a MSCA IF (659213).
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/9367

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