Researchers have now shown that lasers — usually thought of as being inanimate optoelectronic instruments — can also be made from certain biological gain media. Nature Photonics spoke to Malte C. Gather and Seok Hyun Yun about their realization of a living single-cell laser.
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Pile, D. Cellular lasers. Nature Photon 5, 438 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2011.126
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2011.126
