Integrated lasers for biophotonic Lab-on-a-Chip systems in polymer

Author

Mappes, Timo ; Vannahme, Christoph ; Grossmann, Tobias ; Klinkhammer, Sönke ; Hauser, Mario ; Beck, Torsten ; Wienhold, Tobias ; Christiansen, Mads Brøkner ; Kristensen, Anders ; Kalt, Heinz ; Lemmer, Uli

Author_Institution

Inst. of Microstructure Technol., KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany

fYear

2011

fDate

Oct. 30 2011-Nov. 2 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Lab-on-a-Chip (LoC) systems enable biomedical or chemical testing for point-of-care analysis at the patient´s bedside or in the field. Our work is focused on developing optical LoCs based on polymers by integrating microfluidic channels, optical waveguides, and miniaturized lasers on different platforms. The chips introduced in our work are using optical and fluidic interconnects only. While some of our photonic structures require features with lateral dimensions in the range of 100 nm, the microfluidic channels are more than one order of magnitude above this regime. In order to allow for mass production, the processes for multiscale replication of the chips are optimized for a minimal number of parallel production steps.

Keywords

distributed feedback lasers; integrated optoelectronics; lab-on-a-chip; laser applications in medicine; micro-optomechanical devices; microchannel flow; optical interconnections; optical polymers; optical waveguides; patient diagnosis; solid lasers; biomedical testing; biophotonic lab-on-a-chip systems; chemical testing; fluidic interconnects; integrated lasers; microfluidic channels; miniaturized lasers; multiscale replication; optical interconnects; optical waveguides; parallel production steps; point-of-care analysis; polymer; size 100 nm; Optical device fabrication; Optical imaging; Optical pumping; Polymers; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microopics Conference (MOC), 2011 17th

Conference_Location

Sendai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1344-6

Type

conf

Filename

6110377