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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 85, Issue 7, Pages 1289-1291Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.1782259
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A random collection of scatterers in a gain medium can produce coherent laser emission lines dubbed random lasing. We show that biological tissues, including human tissues, can support coherent random lasing when infiltrated with a concentrated laser dye solution. To extract a typical random resonator size within the tissue we average the power Fourier transform of random laser spectra collected from many excitation locations in the tissue; we verified this procedure by a computer simulation. Surprisingly, we found that malignant tissues show many more laser lines compared to healthy tissues taken from the same organ. Consequently, the obtained typical random resonator was found to be different for healthy and cancerous tissues, and this may lead to a technique for separating malignant from healthy tissues for diagnostic imaging. (C) 2004 American Institute of Physics.
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