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Inside Back Cover: Bacteria‐based branched structures for bionanophotonics (Laser Photonics Rev. 9(5)/2015)
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
laser and photonics reviews
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.778
H-Index - 116
eISSN - 1863-8899
pISSN - 1863-8880
DOI - 10.1002/lpor.201570057
Subject(s) - photonics , laser , cover (algebra) , optical fiber , nanotechnology , optoelectronics , computer science , optics , materials science , physics , engineering , mechanical engineering
Biomaterials‐based branched photonic structures are important biocompatible components for bionanophotonic integration. Here, by using a four‐segment tapered optical fiber, branched photonic structures with different branches and lengths are directly assembled with living E. coli bacteria, using the branched light beams output from the fiber. These natural living biomaterials‐based branched structures provide different components, such as multidirectional biophotonic waveguides and beam splitters, for bionanophotonics, with good light propagating performance. (Picture: Hongbao Xin et al., 10.1002/lpor.201500097 pp. 554–563, in this issue)