DocumentCode
448045
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
Volume
1
fYear
2005
fDate
22-27 May 2005
Firstpage
698
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;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. (CLEO). Conference on
Print_ISBN
1-55752-795-4
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CLEO.2005.201893
Filename
1572959
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