TY - GEN
T1 - Femtosecond pump repump depletion to sort biological particles from background urban particles
AU - Boutou, V.
AU - Guyon, L.
AU - Bonnet, C.
AU - Roth, M.
AU - Rabitz, H.
AU - Courvoisier, F.
AU - Wolf, J. P.
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - We investigated femtosecond pump-repump depletion excitation in biological fluorescent molecules (tryptophan and flavins) in solutions and in organic fluorescent interferants such as polycyclic hydrocarbons (naphthalene, diesel fuel). If the repump pulse induces in both flavins and Trp a depletion of the excited state, populated by the pump pulse, which leads to a drastic decrease of the fluorescence, such mechanism is ineffective in organic fluorescent interferents. The repump induced depletion is still observed for bacteria containing solutions. This opens interesting perspectives to discriminate biological from non-biological fluorescent particles in air.
AB - We investigated femtosecond pump-repump depletion excitation in biological fluorescent molecules (tryptophan and flavins) in solutions and in organic fluorescent interferants such as polycyclic hydrocarbons (naphthalene, diesel fuel). If the repump pulse induces in both flavins and Trp a depletion of the excited state, populated by the pump pulse, which leads to a drastic decrease of the fluorescence, such mechanism is ineffective in organic fluorescent interferents. The repump induced depletion is still observed for bacteria containing solutions. This opens interesting perspectives to discriminate biological from non-biological fluorescent particles in air.
KW - Aerosol particles discrimination
KW - Bio-molecules ultrafast spectroscopy
KW - Biological intrinsic fluorophore
KW - Femtosecond fluorescence depletion
KW - Real-time particle detection
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U2 - 10.1117/12.689758
DO - 10.1117/12.689758
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33846250405
SN - 0819464988
SN - 9780819464989
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
BT - Femtosecond Phenomena and Nonlinear Optics III
T2 - Femtosecond Phenomena and Nonlinear Optics III
Y2 - 11 September 2006 through 12 September 2006
ER -