Fluorescence Lifetime Hong-Ou-Mandel Sensing
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.03575v1
- Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2023 16:13:52 GMT
- Title: Fluorescence Lifetime Hong-Ou-Mandel Sensing
- Authors: Ashley Lyons, Vytautas Zickus, Ra\'ul \'Alvarez-Mendoza, Danilo
Triggiani, Vincenzo Tamma, Niclas Westerberg, Manlio Tassieri, Daniele Faccio
- Abstract summary: We demonstrate a fluorescence lifetime measurement technique based on photon-bunching statistics with a resolution that is only dependent on the duration of the reference photon or laser pulse.
We corroborate the effectiveness of the technique by measuring the Newtonian viscosity of glycerol/water mixtures by means of a molecular rotor having over an order of magnitude variability in lifetime.
- Score: 0.944419833997454
- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Abstract: Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy in the time domain is typically
performed by recording the arrival time of photons either by using electronic
time tagging or a gated detector. As such the temporal resolution is limited by
the performance of the electronics to 100's of picoseconds. Here, we
demonstrate a fluorescence lifetime measurement technique based on
photon-bunching statistics with a resolution that is only dependent on the
duration of the reference photon or laser pulse, which can readily reach the
1-0.1 picosecond timescale. A range of fluorescent dyes having lifetimes
spanning from 1.6 to 7 picoseconds have been here measured with only ~1 second
measurement duration. We corroborate the effectiveness of the technique by
measuring the Newtonian viscosity of glycerol/water mixtures by means of a
molecular rotor having over an order of magnitude variability in lifetime, thus
introducing a new method for contact-free nanorheology. Accessing fluorescence
lifetime information at such high temporal resolution opens a doorway for a
wide range of fluorescent markers to be adopted for studying yet unexplored
fast biological processes, as well as fundamental interactions such as lifetime
shortening in resonant plasmonic devices.
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