Liquid Waveguide-Based Evanescent Wave Sensor That Uses Two Light Sources with Different Wavelengths

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We demonstrate a prototypic optofluidic evanescent wave sensor made of poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) elastomer in which two light sources with different wavelengths are coupled into an optofluidic liquid-core/liquid-cladding (L(2)) waveguide. The exponentially decaying evanescent wave interacts with analyte molecules dissolved in the cladding fluids or products formed by in situ reactions at the core cladding interface. The analyte molecules exhibit distinctly different light absorbance at the two wavelengths during the light analyte interaction. Therefore, by using the normalized absorbance calculated from the intensity ratio of the two wavelengths instead of the absolute magnitude of either signal, unwanted effects from omnipresent external noise sources can be reduced. In addition, the differential absorption of the two beams by the analyte solutions can be used to enhance the resolution of sample analysis. The evanescent wave sensor based on a liquid waveguide can also be used for real-time monitoring of chemical reactions, because the core and cladding fluids in the L(2) waveguide are slightly miscible at the core-cladding interface due to the diffusional mixing.
Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
Issue Date
2011-01
Language
English
Article Type
Article
Keywords

PH SENSOR; OPTOFLUIDICS; FABRICATION; TECHNOLOGY

Citation

ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY, v.83, no.2, pp.585 - 590

ISSN
0003-2700
DOI
10.1021/ac102615z
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10203/100090
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CBE-Journal Papers(저널논문)
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