• DocumentCode
    2558573
  • Title

    Large core polymer waveguides for optical backplanes in microfluidic systems

  • Author

    Lee, Kevin ; Lee, Harry L T ; Ram, Rajeev J.

  • Author_Institution
    Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA
  • fYear
    0
  • fDate
    0-0 0
  • Firstpage
    38
  • Lastpage
    39
  • Abstract
    A platform is developed which utilizes polymer materials used for the chips to create waveguide based optical components. With the fabrication method demonstrated, waveguides, power splitters, combiners and bends can be introduced and integrated cheaply into existing biochips
  • Keywords
    biological techniques; integrated optics; microfluidics; optical backplanes; optical fabrication; optical polymers; optical waveguides; biochips; integrated optics; microfluidic systems; optical backplanes; polymer waveguides; Backplanes; Biological materials; Biomedical optical imaging; Microfluidics; Optical device fabrication; Optical devices; Optical materials; Optical polymers; Optical waveguide components; Optical waveguides;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    LEOS Summer Topical Meetings, 2006 Digest of the
  • Conference_Location
    Quebec City, Que.
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-0090-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/LEOSST.2006.1693970
  • Filename
    1693970