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There is currently a great deal of interest in using small droplets as containers for chemical reactions. Optical methods for droplet manipulation are attractive because they offer control without an on chip structure; however forces from optical tweezers tend to be in the pN range. Wayne State University researchers have developed a new method...

Published: 3/31/2014 | Inventor(s): Amar Basu, Gopakumar Kamalakshakurup

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Category(s): MEMS, Microfluidics, Physical Sciences, Instrumentation, Optics & Photonics

High Gain Infrared Collector and Data Node

An infrared collector employs a concentrator formed of a plurality of spatially related gradient-indexed (GRIN) lenses and a photo detector interconnected by optical fibers. Since the GRIN lenses are arranged on a hemispherical shell the concentrator is relatively insensitive to the direction of the incoming infrared radiation. Optical fibers are...

Published: 2/6/2014 | Inventor(s): Yang Zhao, Dan Hu

Keywords(s): Device, Optical

Category(s): Instrumentation, Optics & Photonics, Physical Sciences, Sensors

Integrated Optical Polarizer for Silicon-on-Insulator Waveguides

Integrated optics based on silicon-on-insulator platforms are developing extremely fast due to technological compatibility with complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) fabrication process widely accepted in microelectronics. Wayne State researchers have developed a technology which generates an integrated optical polarizer for high index...

Published: 2/6/2014 | Inventor(s): Ivan Avrutsky

Keywords(s): Fiber Optic, Optical, Photonic, Polarizer

Category(s): Physical Sciences, Optics & Photonics, MEMS, Materials, Thin films