Optical waveguides – Optical waveguide sensor
Reexamination Certificate
2005-07-12
2005-07-12
Healy, Brian M. (Department: 2883)
Optical waveguides
Optical waveguide sensor
C385S014000, C385S129000, C385S130000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06917726
ABSTRACT:
The present invention is directed to a method and an apparatus for analysis of an analyte. The method involves providing a zero-mode waveguide which includes a cladding surrounding a core where the cladding is configured to preclude propagation of electromagnetic energy of a frequency less than a cutoff frequency longitudinally through the core of the zero-mode waveguide. The analyte is positioned in the core of the zero-mode waveguide and is then subjected, in the core of the zero-mode waveguide, to activating electromagnetic radiation of a frequency less than the cut-off frequency under conditions effective to permit analysis of the analyte in an effective observation volume which is more compact than if the analysis were carried out in the absence of the zero-mode waveguide.
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Craighead Harold G.
Korlach Jonas
Levene Michael J.
Turner Stephen W.
Webb Watt W.
Cornell Research Foundation Inc.
Healy Brian M.
Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo P.C.
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