Biolasing from individual cells in a low-Q resonator enables spectral fingerprinting
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Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Lasing from cells has recently been subject of thorough investigation because of the potential for sensitive and fast biosensing. Yet, lasing from individual cells has been studied in high‐quality resonators, resulting in limited dependence of the lasing properties on the cellular microenvironment. Here, lasing is triggered by cells floating in a low quality factor resonator composed of a disposable poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) cell counting‐slide, hence in absence of conventional high‐reflectivity optical cavities. The exceptional spectral narrowing and the steep slope increase in the input–output energy diagram prove occurrence of laser action in presence of cells. The observed biolasing is an intrinsically dynamic signal, with large fluctuations in intensity and spectrum determined by the optical properties of the individual cell passing through the pump beam. Numerical simulations of the scattering efficiency rule out the possibility of optical feedback from either WGM (whispering gallery mode) or multiple scattering within the cell, and point to the enhanced directional scattering field as the crucial contribution of cells to the laser action. Finally, principal component analysis of lasing spectra measured from freely diffusing cells yields spectral fingerprints of cell populations, which allows discriminating cancer from healthy Rattus glial cells with high degree of confidence.
Date Issued
2020-01-24
Date Acceptance
2020-01-24
Citation
Advanced Optical Materials, 2020, 8 (6), pp.1-8
ISSN
2195-1071
Publisher
Wiley
Start Page
1
End Page
8
Journal / Book Title
Advanced Optical Materials
Volume
8
Issue
6
Copyright Statement
© 2020 The Authors. Published by WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Sponsor
The Leverhulme Trust
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Grant Number
RPG-2014-238
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Physical Sciences
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Optics
Materials Science
biolasing
biosensing
cell distinction
PCA
scattering
LIGHT-SCATTERING
FLUORESCENT-PROBES
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN 1901573
Date Publish Online
2020-01-24