Giant Enhancement of Raman Scattering by a Hollow-Core Microstructured Optical Fiber Allows Single Exosome Probing.

Microstructured optical fibers (MOFs) provide solutions for breaking through the bottlenecks in areas of high-power transmission and high-efficiency optical waveguides. Other than transporting light waves, MOFs can synergistically combine microfluidics and optics in a single fiber with an unprecedented light path length not readily achievable by planar optofluidic configurations. Here, we demonstrate that hollow-core anti-resonant optical fibers (HcARFs) can significantly enhance Raman scattering by over three orders of magnitude (EF ≈ 5000) compared with a planar setup, due to the joint mechanisms of strong light-matter interaction in the fiber core and the cumulative effect of the fiber. The giant enhancement enables us to develop the first optical fiber sensor to achieve single cancer exosome detection via a sandwich-structured strategy. This enables a multiplexed analysis of surface proteins of exosome samples, potentially allowing an accurate identification of the cellular origin of exosomes for cancer diagnosis. Our findings could expand the applications of HcARF in many exciting areas beyond the waveguide.

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