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An exciton-polariton laser based on biologically produced fluorescent protein
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dc.contributor.author | Dietrich, Christof Peter | |
dc.contributor.author | Steude, Anja | |
dc.contributor.author | Tropf, Laura Christine | |
dc.contributor.author | Schubert, Marcel | |
dc.contributor.author | Kronenberg, Nils Michael | |
dc.contributor.author | Ostermann, Kai | |
dc.contributor.author | Hoefling, Sven | |
dc.contributor.author | Gather, Malte Christian | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-08-24T10:30:31Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-08-24T10:30:31Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-08-19 | |
dc.identifier.citation | 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 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 2375-2548 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE: 244546146 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE UUID: cd89c8eb-59ea-4b9d-a2da-750dab18c455 | |
dc.identifier.other | Scopus: 84992215390 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0002-4857-5562/work/47136517 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0002-8739-4852/work/36937598 | |
dc.identifier.other | WOS: 000383734300026 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10023/9367 | |
dc.description | 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). | en |
dc.description.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. | |
dc.format.extent | 7 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Science Advances | en |
dc.rights | 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). | en |
dc.subject | Polariton | en |
dc.subject | Bose-Einstein | en |
dc.subject | Condensation | en |
dc.subject | Fluorescent protein | en |
dc.subject | Laser | en |
dc.subject | QC Physics | en |
dc.subject | QH301 Biology | en |
dc.subject | DAS | en |
dc.subject | BDC | en |
dc.subject | R2C | en |
dc.subject.lcc | QC | en |
dc.subject.lcc | QH301 | en |
dc.title | An exciton-polariton laser based on biologically produced fluorescent protein | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.sponsor | European Research Council | en |
dc.contributor.sponsor | European Commission | en |
dc.contributor.sponsor | EPSRC | en |
dc.contributor.sponsor | European Commission | en |
dc.contributor.sponsor | BBSRC | en |
dc.description.version | Publisher PDF | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomy | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Condensed Matter Physics | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Biomedical Sciences Research Complex | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1600666 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 640012 | en |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | PCIG12-GA-2012-334407 | en |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | EP/M025330/1 | en |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 659213 | en |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | BB/J000337/1 | en |
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