Title :
Highly sensitive fluorescence detection from optimized liquid-core ARROW waveguides
Author :
Yin, Dongliang ; Schmidt, Holger ; Barber, John P. ; Hawkins, Aaron R.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Eng., California Univ., Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Abstract :
We report loss improvement and fluorescence detection of integrated liquid-core optical ARROW waveguides. Waveguide loss is reduced to 0.33/cm and fluorescence from as low as 500 molecules with collection efficiencies up to 15.6% was detected.
Keywords :
biological techniques; dyes; fluorescence; integrated optics; optical losses; optical sensors; optical waveguides; integrated liquid-core optical ARROW waveguide; molecule fluorescence detection; waveguide loss; Biomedical optical imaging; Fluorescence; Liquid waveguides; Microscopy; Molecular biophysics; Optical filters; Optical losses; Optical reflection; Optical sensors; Optical waveguides;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. (CLEO). Conference on
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-795-4
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2005.201893
