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American Institute of Physics, Applied Physics Letters, 23(105), p. 233702, 2014

DOI: 10.1063/1.4904004

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Multi-state lasing in self-assembled ring-shaped green fluorescent protein microcavities

Journal article published in 2014 by Christof P. Dietrich, Sven Höfling, Malte C. Gather ORCID
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Abstract

We demonstrate highly efficient lasing from multiple photonic states in microcavities filled with self-assembled rings of recombinant enhanced green fluorescent protein (eGFP) in its solid state form. The lasing regime is achieved at very low excitation energies of 13 nJ and occurs from cavity modes dispersed in both energy and momentum. We attribute the momentum distribution to very efficient scattering of incident light at the surface of the eGFP rings. The distribution of lasing states in energy is induced by the large spectral width of the gain spectrum of recombinant eGFP (FWHM ≅ 25 nm).