Broadband photon pair generation in green fluorescent proteins through spontaneous four-wave mixing

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 6; no. 1; p. 24344
• Main Authors: Shi, Siyuan, Thomas, Abu, Corzo, Neil V., Kumar, Prem, Huang, Yuping, Lee, Kim Fook
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 14.04.2016; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 639/624; 639/624/399; 639/766/483; Biomimetics; Fluorophores; Genetic engineering; Green Fluorescent Proteins - metabolism; Humanities and Social Sciences; Information processing; Luminescent Agents - metabolism; multidisciplinary; Optical Phenomena; Photons; Proteins; Quantum theory; Science

Recent studies in quantum biology suggest that quantum mechanics help us to explore quantum processes in biological system. Here, we demonstrate generation of photon pairs through spontaneous four-wave mixing process in naturally occurring fluorescent proteins. We develop a general empirical method...