Description
Book SynopsisOptofluidics is an emerging field that involves the use of fluids to modify optical properties and the use of optical devices to detect flowing media. Ultimately, its value is highly dependent on the successful integration of photonic integrated circuits with microfluidic or nanofluidic systems. Handbook of Optofluidics provides a snapshot of the state of the field, captures current trends, and gives insight into the technology of tomorrow, which will enable researchers to tackle challenges and opportunities that it can uniquely answer.
Divided into three sections, this comprehensive resource begins by introducing the scientific foundations that contribute to optofluidics. It details the connections to related research areas and reveals the scientific influences currently shaping the design and function of optofluidic systems. It provides brief reviews of those established fields from which optofluidics has evolved, putting special emphasis on how they
Trade Review
This excellent reference provides broad coverage of the emerging and developing field of optofluidics. The book will be extremely useful for professionals and graduate students working on nanotechnologies that deploy optofluidic designs such as the lab on a chip and optofluidic transport mechanisms. … Those interested in waveguides will find useful information about photonic crystal waveguides and integrated optofluidic waveguides.
—OPN Optics & Photonics News, November 2010
I've found this book to be very useful, and am delighted that the project has been so successful. From my own perspective, the part on optical elements and devices is a great reference, and the data in the appendices will save my students a lot of time in the future!
—Graham A. Turnbull, University of St. Andrews, Scotland
Table of ContentsFoundations of Optofluidics. Definition of Optofluidics. Micro- and Nanofluidic Fundamentals. Spectroscopic Methods. Microfabrication. Optoelectronics. Passive Integrated Optics. Photonic Crystals. Lab-on-a-chip. Optical Elements and Devices. Fluid Controlled Optical Elements. Imaging Elements. Fluid Filled Photonic Crystals. Ring Resonators. Optofluidic Light Sources. Bioanalysis. Single Molecule Detection. Raman Detection in Microchips and Microchannels. Fluid Filled Optical Fibers. Integrated Optofluidic Waveguides. Flow Cytometry. Optical Trapping and Manipulation. Plasmonics. Outlook. Appendices.
