Organic lasers: recent developments on materials, device geometries, and fabrication techniques

AJC Kuehne, MC Gather - Chemical Reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Organic dyes have been used as gain medium for lasers since the 1960s, long before the
advent of today's organic electronic devices. Organic gain materials are highly attractive for …

Biophotonic probes for bio-detection and imaging

T Pan, D Lu, H **n, B Li - Light: Science & Applications, 2021 - nature.com
The rapid development of biophotonics and biomedical sciences makes a high demand on
photonic structures to be interfaced with biological systems that are capable of manipulating …

Fluorescent and lasing whispering gallery mode microresonators for sensing applications

T Reynolds, N Riesen, A Meldrum… - Laser & Photonics …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Whispering gallery modes (WGMs) have been exploited for a broad range of sensing
applications. However, the vast majority of WGM sensors consist of passive resonators …

Biological lasers for biomedical applications

YC Chen, X Fan - Advanced Optical Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A biolaser utilizes biological materials as part of its gain medium and/or part of its cavity. It
can also be a micro‐or nanosized laser embedded/integrated within biological materials …

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

YC Chen, X Tan, Q Sun, Q Chen, W Wang… - Nature biomedical …, 2017 - nature.com
Detection of nuclear biomarkers, such as nucleic acids and nuclear proteins, is critical for
early-stage cancer diagnosis and prognosis. Conventional methods relying on …

Single-cell laser emitting cytometry for label-free nucleolus fingerprinting

G Fang, Z Qiao, L Huang, H Zhu, J **e, T Zhou… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The nucleolus, a recognized biomolecular condensate, serves as the hub for ribosome
biogenesis within the cell nucleus. Its quantity and morphology are discernible indicators of …

Biomaterial microlasers implantable in the cornea, skin, and blood

M Humar, A Dobravec, X Zhao, SH Yun - Optica, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Fluorescent stand-alone laser particles that are implantable into biological tissues have the
potential to enable novel optical imaging, diagnosis, and therapy. Here we demonstrate …

Lasing‐encoded microsensor driven by interfacial cavity resonance energy transfer

Z Yuan, Z Wang, P Guan, X Wu… - Advanced Optical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Microlasers are emerging tools for biomedical applications. In particular, whispering‐gallery‐
mode (WGM) microlasers are promising candidates for sensing at the biointerface owing to …

Multifunctional laser imaging of cancer cell secretion with hybrid liquid crystal resonators

C Gong, F Sun, G Yang, C Wang… - Laser & Photonics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Laser emission imaging is an emerging technology, which offers immense potential for
revealing biological behavior with enhanced light‐matter interactions and signal contrast …

[HTML][HTML] Optofluidic biosensing: devices, strategies, and applications

G Testa, G Persichetti, R Bernini - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2024 - Elsevier
Optofluidics is an interdisciplinary domain merging optics and microfluidics and has driven
significant progress in the development of small-scale, high-performance optical biosensors …