Wednesday, July 11, 2012

1207.2272 (Christian Blum et al.)

Nanophotonic control of the Förster resonance energy transfer
efficiency
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Christian Blum, Niels Zijlstra, Ad Lagendijk, Martijn Wubs, Allard P. Mosk, Vinod Subramaniam, Willem L. Vos
We have studied the influence of the local density of optical states (LDOS) on the rate and efficiency of F\"orster resonance energy transfer (FRET) from a donor to an acceptor. The donors and acceptors are dye molecules that are separated by a short strand of double-stranded DNA. The LDOS is controlled by carefully positioning the FRET pairs near a mirror. We find that the energy transfer efficiency changes with LDOS, and that, in agreement with theory, the energy transfer rate is independent of the LDOS, which allows one to quantitatively control FRET systems in a new way. Our results imply a change in the characteristic F\"orster distance, in contrast to common lore that this distance is fixed for a given FRET pair.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.2272

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