Controlling fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) by optical confinement in a λ/2-microresonator
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Gutbrod, Raphael; Schleifenbaum, Frank; Bar, Sebastian; Peter, Sebastien; Elgass, Kirstin; Meixner, Alfred J.
- Source
- CLEO/QELS: 2010 Laser Science to Photonic Applications Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on. :1-2 May, 2010
- Subject
- Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Photonics and Electrooptics
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Signal Processing and Analysis
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Optical control
Fluorescence
Resonance
Energy exchange
Microcavities
Biomedical optical imaging
Proteins
Stimulated emission
Spectroscopy
Optical microscopy
- Language
FRET plays an important role in light-induced processes in life sciences, e.g. energy transfer in light harvesting complexes. We present a method to tune the energy transfer from donor to acceptor in an optical microresonator.