Coherent and Noncoherent Photonic Communications in Biological Systems

The possible mechanisms of communications between distant bio-systems by means of optical and UV photons are studied. It is argued that their main production mechanism is owed to the biochemical reactions, occurring during the cell division.. In the proposed model the bio-systems perform such communications, radiating the photons in form of short periodic bursts, which were observed experimentally for fish and frog eggs 1. For experimentally measured photon rates the communication algorithm is supposedly similar to the exchange of binary encoded data in computer net via optical channels 1.Introduction Currently, the term 'biophoton' is attributed to the optical and UV photons emitted by bio-systems in the processes which are different from standard biochemi-luminescence. The significant bio-photon production (BP) in optical and close UV range is established for a huge variety of bio-systems 1,2. Its energy spectrum is nearly constant within optical and close UV frequency range, so it is essentially different from the spectra expected for the system with the temperature about o 300 K, which in this range should fall on 15 orders of magnitude 2,3. The related phenomena is the delayed luminescence (DL) which is the secondary photon emission, stipulated by the irradiation of the biological sample by the short pulse of visible light. The observed DL time dependence is strikingly different from the exponential one, expected for the independent emission of photons. BP rate demonstrates the nonlinear dependence on some bio-systems parameters, such as the density of living cells in the culture, etc 3. The experiments evidence that BP rate is proportional to the rate of cell mitosis in particular bio-system 1,3. The novel feature of bio-photon radiation is that, despite its low rate, about 10 photons/cm 2 sec, it effectively performs the communications between distant bio-systems. In particular, being radiated by the developing bio-system, it can rise the rate of cell mitosis in another bio-system of the same or similar specie up to 50%, this phenomenon called mitogenetic effect (ME) 1,2. The communications of some other types were reported also, for example, for the bio-systems in the state of abrupt stress 1 or slow destruction 10. Until now, BP and DL properties, as well as ME, can't be described within the standard premises of cellular biology 2,3. To explain them, Popp proposed that the electromagnetic (e-m) field of bio-system is in coherent quantum state, analogously to laser 3. Such field can produce the nonlinear patterns in …