Biological Lasers for Biomedical Applications

Ultrasound Modulated Droplet Lasers

(2019) Xuzhou Li et al.   ACS Photonics

Chromatin laser imaging reveals abnormal nuclear changes for early cancer detection

(2019) Yu-Cheng Chen et al.   Biomedical Optics Express

Turbidimetric inhibition immunoassay revisited to enhance its sensitivity via an optofluidic laser

(2019) Xi Yang et al.   BIOSENSORS & BIOELECTRONICS

Proton-Controlled Organic Microlaser Switch

(2018) Zhenhua Gao et al.   ACS Nano

Label-free and spectral-analysis-free detection of neuropsychiatric disease biomarkers using an ion-sensitive GaInAsP nanolaser biosensor

(2018) Keisuke Watanabe et al.   BIOSENSORS & BIOELECTRONICS

A robust tissue laser platform for analysis of formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded biopsies

(2018) Yu-Cheng Chen et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Nanowire lasers as intracellular probes

(2018) Xiaoqin Wu et al.   Nanoscale

Continuous-wave upconverting nanoparticle microlasers

(2018) Angel Fernandez-Bravo et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Detecting enzymatic reactions in penicillinase via liquid crystal microdroplet-based pH sensor

(2018) Yan Wang et al.   SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL

Flexible and ultra-lightweight polymer membrane lasers

(2018) Markus Karl et al.   Nature Communications

Wavelength-tunable and shape-reconfigurable photonic capsule resonators containing cholesteric liquid crystals

(2018) Sang Seok Lee et al.   Science Advances

Intracellular near-Infrared Microlaser Probes Based on Organic Microsphere–SiO2 Core–Shell Structures for Cell Tagging and Tracking

(2018) Zheng Lv et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Distributed fibre optofluidic laser for chip-scale arrayed biochemical sensing

(2018) Chaoyang Gong et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

An Organic Semiconductor Laser Platform For The Detection of DNA by AgNP plasmonic Enhancement

(2018) Glenn McConnell et al.   LANGMUIR

DNA Melting Analysis with Optofluidic Lasers Based on Fabry-Pérot Microcavity

(2018) Mengdi Hou et al.   ACS Sensors

Non-obstructive intracellular nanolasers

(2018) Alasdair H. Fikouras et al.   Nature Communications

High-Q, low-mode-volume microsphere-integrated Fabry–Perot cavity for optofluidic lasing applications

(2018) Xiaoqin Wu et al.   Photonics Research

Versatile tissue lasers based on high-Q Fabry–Pérot microcavities

(2017) Yu-Cheng Chen et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

An integrated microwell array platform for cell lasing analysis

(2017) Qiushu Chen et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Reproducible fiber optofluidic laser for disposable and array applications

(2017) Chaoyang Gong et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Whispering gallery mode laser based on cholesteric liquid crystal microdroplets as temperature sensor

(2017) Liyuan Zhao et al.   OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS

Ion-sensitive photonic-crystal nanolaser sensors

(2017) Takumi Watanabe et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Spaser as a biological probe

(2017) Ekaterina I. Galanzha et al.   Nature Communications

Random lasing in human tissues embedded with organic dyes for cancer diagnosis

(2017) Yu Wang et al.   Scientific Reports

Microsphere Solid-State Biolasers

(2017) Van Duong Ta et al.   Advanced Optical Materials

Gain-Based Mechanism for pH Sensing Based on Random Lasing

(2017) Michele Gaio et al.   Physical Review Applied

Biomaterial microlasers implantable in the cornea, skin, and blood

(2017) Matjaž Humar et al.   Optica

Laser-emission imaging of nuclear biomarkers for high-contrast cancer screening and immunodiagnosis

(2017) Yu-Cheng Chen et al.   Nature Biomedical Engineering

Lasing in Live Mitotic and Non-Phagocytic Cells by Efficient Delivery of Microresonators

(2017) Marcel Schubert et al.   Scientific Reports

Starch-Based Biological Microlasers

(2016) Yanhui Wei et al.   ACS Nano

Optofluidic FRET Lasers and Their Applications in Novel Photonic Devices and Biochemical Sensing

(2016) Mehdi Aas et al.   IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS

Optofluidic chlorophyll lasers

(2016) Yu-Cheng Chen et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Digital DNA detection based on a compact optofluidic laser with ultra-low sample consumption

(2016) Wonsuk Lee et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Liquid-crystal-droplet optical microcavities

(2016) Matjaž Humar   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Flavin mononucleotide biomolecular laser: longitudinal mode structure, polarization, and temporal characteristics as probes of local chemical environment

(2016) José A. Rivera et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Laser Particle Stimulated Emission Microscopy

(2016) Sangyeon Cho et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Organic distributed feedback laser for label-free biosensing of ErbB2 protein biomarker

(2016) Aritz Retolaza et al.   SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL

Measuring milk fat content by random laser emission

(2016) Luis M. G. Abegão et al.   Scientific Reports

Silk-Based Biocompatible Random Lasing

(2016) Soraya Caixeiro et al.   Advanced Optical Materials

Lasing in blood

(2016) Yu-Cheng Chen et al.   Optica

An exciton-polariton laser based on biologically produced fluorescent protein

(2016) C. P. Dietrich et al.   Science Advances

A new class of optical sensors: a random laser based device

(2016) Emilio Ignesti et al.   Scientific Reports

Detection of phase transitions from the study of whispering gallery mode resonance in liquid crystal droplets

(2015) T. Arun Kumar et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Optofluidic laser array based on stable high-Q Fabry–Pérot microcavities

(2015) Wenjie Wang et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Monolithic optofluidic ring resonator lasers created by femtosecond laser nanofabrication

(2015) Hengky Chandrahalim et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Random laser in biological tissues impregnated with a fluorescent anticancer drug

(2015) F Lahoz et al.   LASER PHYSICS LETTERS

Lasing within Live Cells Containing Intracellular Optical Microresonators for Barcode-Type Cell Tagging and Tracking

(2015) Marcel Schubert et al.   NANO LETTERS

Intracellular microlasers

(2015) Matjaž Humar et al.   Nature Photonics

Cellular dye lasers: lasing thresholds and sensing in a planar resonator

(2015) Matjaž Humar et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Gold nanostars for random lasing enhancement

(2015) Johannes Ziegler et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Dopamine sensing and measurement using threshold and spectral measurements in random lasers

(2015) Wan Zakiah Wan Ismail et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Real-time tunable lasing from plasmonic nanocavity arrays

(2015) Ankun Yang et al.   Nature Communications

Biosensing using photonic crystal nanolasers

(2015) Toshihiko Baba   MRS Communications

A Simple Approach to Biological Single-Cell Lasers Via Intracellular Dyes

(2015) Sedat Nizamoglu et al.   Advanced Optical Materials

In vitro and in vivo biolasing of fluorescent proteins suspended in liquid microdroplet cavities

(2014) Alexandr Jonáš et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Optofluidic lasers with a single molecular layer of gain

(2014) Qiushu Chen et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

The potential of optofluidic biolasers

(2014) Xudong Fan et al.   NATURE METHODS

Explosives detection in a lasing plasmon nanocavity

(2014) Ren-Min Ma et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Optofluidic laser for dual-mode sensitive biomolecular detection with a large dynamic range

(2014) Xiang Wu et al.   Nature Communications

Bio-optimized energy transfer in densely packed fluorescent protein enables near-maximal luminescence and solid-state lasers

(2014) Malte C. Gather et al.   Nature Communications

All-Biomaterial Laser Using Vitamin and Biopolymers

(2013) Sedat Nizamoglu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Bio-inspired optofluidic lasers with luciferin

(2013) Xiang Wu et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

On-chip microlasers for biomolecular detection via highly localized deposition of a multifunctional phospholipid ink

(2013) Uwe Bog et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Single-mode biological distributed feedback laser

(2013) Christoph Vannahme et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Self-assembled DNA tetrahedral optofluidic lasers with precise and tunable gain control

(2013) Qiushu Chen et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Highly sensitive fluorescent protein FRET detection using optofluidic lasers

(2013) Qiushu Chen et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Tuning Whispering Gallery Mode Lasing from Self-Assembled Polymer Droplets

(2013) Van Duong Ta et al.   Scientific Reports

Intracavity DNA Melting Analysis with Optofluidic Lasers

(2012) Wonsuk Lee et al.   ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Bio-switchable optofluidic lasers based on DNA Holliday junctions

(2012) Xingwang Zhang et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

A multicolor microfluidic droplet dye laser with single mode emission

(2011) G. Aubry et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Photonic Crystal Point-Shift Nanolasers With and Without Nanoslots—Design, Fabrication, Lasing, and Sensing Characteristics

(2011) S. Kita et al.   IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS

A tunable 3D optofluidic waveguide dye laser via two centrifugal Dean flow streams

(2011) Y. Yang et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Single-cell biological lasers

(2011) Malte C. Gather et al.   Nature Photonics

Random lasing in bone tissue

(2010) Qinghai Song et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Bioinspired optofluidic FRET lasers via DNA scaffolds

(2010) Y. Sun et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cancerous tissue mapping from random lasing emission spectra

(2010) R C Polson et al.   Journal of Optics

Demonstration of a spaser-based nanolaser

(2009) M. A. Noginov et al.   NATURE

Plasmon lasers at deep subwavelength scale

(2009) Rupert F. Oulton et al.   NATURE

Plastic distributed feedback laser biosensor

(2008) M. Lu et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS