Microfibre resonating optical sensors for microfluidics
Microfibre resonating optical sensors for microfluidics
A considerable fraction of the fundamental mode can propagate outside the fibre physical boundary if the optical fibre has a micrometric or sub-micrometric diameter. In these conditions, high-Q resonators can be promptly achieved with simple coils. Devices based on coiled microfibres have a resonating wavelength strongly dependent on the surrounding media, hence they can be used as an extremely sensitive refractive index sensors. In free space, these devices suffer from reliability problems connected to stability and degradation; embedding in low refractive index polymers has solved this issue providing the stability requirements that a sensor needs. can be achieved for both resonating configurations. The use of a small size microfibers and/or thin layer of embedding material d improves considerably S in both CANMR and ENLR. CANMR has also a microfluidic channel which can be easily integrated in a more complex biosystem.
Xu, Fei
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Brambilla, Gilberto
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August 2008
Xu, Fei
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Brambilla, Gilberto
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Xu, Fei and Brambilla, Gilberto
(2008)
Microfibre resonating optical sensors for microfluidics.
Photon 2008, Edinburgh, UK, Edinburgh.
26 - 29 Aug 2008.
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A considerable fraction of the fundamental mode can propagate outside the fibre physical boundary if the optical fibre has a micrometric or sub-micrometric diameter. In these conditions, high-Q resonators can be promptly achieved with simple coils. Devices based on coiled microfibres have a resonating wavelength strongly dependent on the surrounding media, hence they can be used as an extremely sensitive refractive index sensors. In free space, these devices suffer from reliability problems connected to stability and degradation; embedding in low refractive index polymers has solved this issue providing the stability requirements that a sensor needs. can be achieved for both resonating configurations. The use of a small size microfibers and/or thin layer of embedding material d improves considerably S in both CANMR and ENLR. CANMR has also a microfluidic channel which can be easily integrated in a more complex biosystem.
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Published date: August 2008
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Photon 2008, Edinburgh, UK, Edinburgh, 2008-08-26 - 2008-08-29
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Fei Xu
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Gilberto Brambilla
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