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Future lab-on-a-chip applications will use dielectric waveguides instead of classical optical components like lenses and mirrors. The paper shows a way to assess coupling efficiencies between analytes and waveguides by a fast method, allowing to speed-up the development process of lab-on-a-chip devices.
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Reciprocity is a great way to generalize the assessment of coupling processes. Instead of starting a new simulating for each position of an emitter, here one needs just the knowledge of the fields emitted by the fiber to know the measurement sensitivity for all emitter positions.
Dr Thorsten Viktor Feichtner
Julius-Maximilians-Universitat Wurzburg
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This page is a summary of: Remote detection of single emitters via optical waveguides, Physical Review A, May 2014, American Physical Society (APS),
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.89.053801.
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