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Pieter Kuiper
Nov19-04, 01:30 PM
<jabberwocky><div class="vbmenu_control"><a href="jabberwocky:;" onClick="newWindow=window.open('','usenetCode','toolbar=no, location=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,status=no ,width=650,height=400'); newWindow.document.write('<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Usenet ASCII</TITLE></HEAD><BODY topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 BGCOLOR=#F1F1F1><table border=0 width=625><td bgcolor=midnightblue><font color=#F1F1F1>This Usenet message\'s original ASCII form: </font></td></tr><tr><td width=449><br><br><font face=courier><UL><PRE>Sara Abrahamsson &lt;saraabr@msg.ucsf.edu&gt; wrote:\n\n&gt; Is the fluorescence light emitted from GFP coherent?\n\nGreen Fluorescent Protein?\n\nNo. Fluorescence is spontaneous emission and incoherent.\nI do not know about this dye, but maybe one could make a laser out of it\nby stimulated emission.\n\n--\n"Electrons damage the brain," said Farish. (Donna Tartt)\n\n</UL></PRE></font></td></tr></table></BODY><HTML>');"> <IMG SRC=/images/buttons/ip.gif BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER ALT="View this Usenet post in original ASCII form">&nbsp;&nbsp;View this Usenet post in original ASCII form </a></div><P></jabberwocky>Sara Abrahamsson <saraabr@msg.ucsf.edu> wrote:

> Is the fluorescence light emitted from GFP coherent?

Green Fluorescent Protein?

No. Fluorescence is spontaneous emission and incoherent.
I do not know about this dye, but maybe one could make a laser out of it
by stimulated emission.

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"Electrons damage the brain," said Farish. (Donna Tartt)