Fluorescence-based optochemical sensor on flexible foils

Sandeep Kalathimekkad; Jeroen Missinne; Juan Diego Arias Espinoza; Bram Van Hoe; Erwin Bosman; Edsger Smits; Rajesh Mandamparambil; Geert Van Steenberge; Jan Vanfleteren

doi:10.1117/12.922663

9 May 2012 Fluorescence-based optochemical sensor on flexible foils

Sandeep Kalathimekkad, Jeroen Missinne, Juan Diego Arias Espinoza, Bram Van Hoe, Erwin Bosman, Edsger Smits, Rajesh Mandamparambil, Geert Van Steenberge, Jan Vanfleteren

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Proceedings Volume 8439, Optical Sensing and Detection II; 84390Y (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.922663
Event: SPIE Photonics Europe, 2012, Brussels, Belgium

Abstract

This paper describes the implementation of a low-cost technology platform for fluorescence-based optochemical sensors made up of arrays of multimode waveguides and coupling structures integrated onto a flexible substrate. Such a configuration is ideal for multi-analyte detection owing to a possibility of future integration of different dyes in each waveguides. The presence of light sources, fluorescent sensing elements and photodetectors in a foil platform makes it a compact optochemical sensor, which has wide-range of applications in medical, biochemical, and environmental diagnostics. Flexible lightguides fabricated using soft-lithography based replication techniques, are used in combination with 45° micromirror coupling structures, having a loss of 0.5dB. Fluorescent dyes are incorporated with the lightguides enabling a detection of shift in fluorescence-peaks in contact with gases, which are read-out at the detection. Initial measurements yielded promising results of the waveguides mixed with fluorescent dyes showing response to toluene.

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Sandeep Kalathimekkad, Jeroen Missinne, Juan Diego Arias Espinoza, Bram Van Hoe, Erwin Bosman, Edsger Smits, Rajesh Mandamparambil, Geert Van Steenberge, and Jan Vanfleteren "Fluorescence-based optochemical sensor on flexible foils", Proc. SPIE 8439, Optical Sensing and Detection II, 84390Y (9 May 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.922663

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