Shedding light on diatom photonics by means of digital holography
Di Caprio, Giuseppe and Coppola, Giuseppe and Stefano, Luca De and Stefano, Mario De and Antonucci, Alessandra and Congestri, Roberta and Tommasi, Edoardo De (2014) Shedding light on diatom photonics by means of digital holography. Journal of Biophotonics, 7 (5). pp. 341-350. ISSN 1864-0648 (https://doi.org/10.1002/jbio.201200198)
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Abstract
Diatoms are among the dominant phytoplankters in the world's oceans, and their external silica investments, resembling artificial photonic crystals, are expected to play an active role in light manipulation. Digital holography allowed studying the interaction with light of Coscinodiscus wailesii cell wall reconstructing the light confinement inside the cell cytoplasm, condition that is hardly accessible via standard microscopy. The full characterization of the propagated beam, in terms of quantitative phase and intensity, removed a long-standing ambiguity about the origin of the light confinement. The data were discussed in the light of living cell behavior in response to their environment.
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Di Caprio, Giuseppe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5564-8064, Coppola, Giuseppe, Stefano, Luca De, Stefano, Mario De, Antonucci, Alessandra, Congestri, Roberta and Tommasi, Edoardo De;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 85708 Dates: DateEvent2 May 2014Published14 December 2012Published Online26 November 2012AcceptedSubjects: Science > Microbiology Department: Faculty of Engineering > Biomedical Engineering Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 07 Jun 2023 10:50 Last modified: 08 Nov 2024 01:47 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/85708