EPAPS supplementary material for “Nanophotonic control of Förster resonance energy transfer efficiency“

Combined Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation (BiFC) and Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) Reveals Ternary SNARE Complex Formation in Living Plant Cells

Förster Resonance Energy Transfer between Acridinedione and Rhodamine-B

Abstract—The Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) studies between acridinedione dyes as donors and rhodamine dyes as acceptors are explored by spectroscopic techniques like absorption, fluorescence and lifetime measurements. Enhancement of the acceptor photoluminescence intensity and a decrease of the donor decay time are observed in solutions containing acridinedione dye with Rhodamine B (...

Förster Resonance Energy Transfer and Fluorescence Quenching Based Low-density Lipoprotein Probes for Visualizing Transcytosis

Förster transfer outside the weak-excitation limit

The efficiency of resonance energy transfer can be used to determine nanometer-scale separations between dye molecules in a donor-acceptor pair. We argue that the standard method for making this determination in single-pair experiments is valid only when excitation by the applied field is much slower than the other photophysical processes in the system. We derive a simple relation between measu...

Nanophotonic control of the Förster resonance energy transfer efficiency.

We have studied the influence of the local density of optical states (LDOS) on the rate and efficiency of Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) from a donor to an acceptor. The donors and acceptors are dye molecules that are separated by a short strand of double-stranded DNA. The LDOS is controlled by carefully positioning the FRET pairs near a mirror. We find that the energy transfer effici...