Physically transient distributed feedback lasers for eco-friendly and highly efficient chemosensors (Conference Presentation)

Kyungtaek Min; Muhammad Umar; Sunghwan Kim

doi:10.1117/12.2289428

15 March 2018 Physically transient distributed feedback lasers for eco-friendly and highly efficient chemosensors (Conference Presentation)

Kyungtaek Min, Muhammad Umar, Sunghwan Kim

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Proceedings Volume 10510, Frontiers in Biological Detection: From Nanosensors to Systems X; 105100Q (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2289428
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2018, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Organic distributed feedback (DFB) lasers have been attractive for optical chemosensors since the amplified light-matter interaction leads to high sensitivity and detectability of the sensor. However, quenching quantum efficiency of the probe dye under multiple optical pumping marks the limit on the life time of the organic DFB laser based chemosensor. Here, we report the usefulness of the short lived organic DFB laser fabricated by spin-coated natural silk protein and sodium fluorescein dye solution on the permanently useable quartz grating as a physically transient, cost-effective and eco-friendly laser chemosensor. The physically transient and eco-friendly DFB laser showed high sensitivity to hydrochloric acid (HCl) acid vapor. The HCl vapor exposure to the fabricated physically transient DFB laser attenuates the lasing by degrading the optical response of the dye-doped silk film. The response of the physically transient DFB laser chemosensor to HCl is 30 times faster than that in fluorescence. We show the elapsed time to cease lasing depends on the concentration of HCl vapor and the thickness of the active silk/dye layer. Moreover, a new laser sample can be simply fabricated by washing-out and recoating silk/dye solution on the quartz grating. Additionally, the use of silk protein promises eco- and bio-friendly chemosensing due to favorable material traits like no creation of pollution and biocompatibility. Our approach would expand to detection of other important analytes by choosing proper probe dyes.

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Kyungtaek Min, Muhammad Umar, and Sunghwan Kim "Physically transient distributed feedback lasers for eco-friendly and highly efficient chemosensors (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 10510, Frontiers in Biological Detection: From Nanosensors to Systems X, 105100Q (15 March 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2289428

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Proteins

Quartz

Laser marking

Light-matter interactions

Luminescence

Optical pumping

Quantum efficiency

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