LIVING LASERS
Living cell lasers: intracellular lasing induced by natural and polymeric microscopic resonators
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| Coordinator |
THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS
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| Coordinator Country | United Kingdom [UK] |
| Project website | http://gatherlab.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/people/ |
| Total cost | 195˙454 € |
| EC max contribution | 195˙454 € (100%) |
| Programme |
1. H2020-EU.1.3.2. (Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility) |
| Code Call | H2020-MSCA-IF-2014 |
| Funding Scheme | MSCA-IF-EF-ST |
| Starting year | 2015 |
| Duration (year-month-day) | from 2015-08-01 to 2017-07-31 |
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| 1 | THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | UK (ST ANDREWS) | coordinator | 195˙454.00 |
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Project objective
Can a living cell be turned into a laser? By aiming to coalesce biological cells with laser light, the most versatile tool that modern photonics has developed, LIVING LASERS explores entirely new ways to develop fully biocompatible lasers.
The ability of vitamins, bacteria and even living cells to generate laser light has been recently demonstrated by the supervisor of the project, Prof Malte Gather. However, these and other experiments with active biological gain media are so far limited by the rigid and synthetic nature of the optical resonators, an essential part of any laser device. Introducing lasing in living cells independent of external resonators necessitates a conceptual change of the laser design. This is realized by internalization of microscopic resonators that will transfer the optical feedback directly into the cell. It is the main goal of this interdisciplinary project, located at the interface between material sciences, laser physics, photonics and biology, to demonstrate autonomous single cell lasing. Consequently, LIVING LASERS can be expected to start a whole new field in biophotonics and will help to overcome the boundaries between living nature and nowadays highly artificial and harmful laser technologies.
Publications
| year | authors and title | journal | last update |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 |
Marcel Schubert Schubert, Malte C. Gather Microscopic intracellular lasers tag individual cells over several generations published pages: , ISSN: 1818-2259, DOI: 10.1117/2.1201704.006899 |
SPIE Newsroom | 2019-07-24 |
| 2017 |
M Karl, C P Dietrich, M Schubert, I D W Samuel, G A Turnbull, M C Gather Single cell induced optical confinement in biological lasers published pages: 84005, ISSN: 0022-3727, DOI: 10.1088/1361-6463/aa5367 |
Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 50/8 | 2019-07-24 |
| 2017 |
Marcel Schubert, Klara Volckaert, Markus Karl, Andrew Morton, Philipp Liehm, Gareth B. Miles, Simon J. Powis, Malte C. Gather Lasing in Live Mitotic and Non-Phagocytic Cells by Efficient Delivery of Microresonators published pages: 40877, ISSN: 2045-2322, DOI: 10.1038/srep40877 |
Scientific Reports 7 | 2019-07-24 |
| 2016 |
C. P. Dietrich, A. Steude, L. Tropf, M. Schubert, N. M. Kronenberg, K. Ostermann, S. Ho fling, M. C. Gather An exciton-polariton laser based on biologically produced fluorescent protein published pages: e1600666-e160066, ISSN: 2375-2548, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1600666 |
Science Advances 2/8 | 2019-07-24 |
| 2016 |
Markus Karl, Guy L. Whitworth, Marcel Schubert, Christof P. Dietrich, Ifor D. W. Samuel, Graham A. Turnbull, Malte C. Gather Optofluidic distributed feedback lasers with evanescent pumping: Reduced threshold and angular dispersion analysis published pages: 261101, ISSN: 0003-6951, DOI: 10.1063/1.4954650 |
Applied Physics Letters 108/26 | 2019-07-24 |
| 2017 |
Christof P. Dietrich, Anja Steude, Marcel Schubert, Jürgen Ohmer, Utz Fischer, Sven Höfling, Malte C. Gather Strong Coupling in Fully Tunable Microcavities Filled with Biologically Produced Fluorescent Proteins published pages: 1600659, ISSN: 2195-1071, DOI: 10.1002/adom.201600659 |
Advanced Optical Materials 5/1 | 2019-07-24 |
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