Photonic Needles for Light Delivery in Deep Tissue-like Media
Abstract We demonstrate a new platform for minimally invasive, light delivery probes leveraging the maturing field of silicon photonics, enabling massively parallel fabrication of photonic structures. These Photonic Needles probes have sub-10 μm cross-sectional dimensions, lengths greater than 3 mm–...
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Nature Portfolio
2017
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| Acceso en línea: | https://doaj.org/article/652591e4b64e41c182554f53a12c119c |
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| Sumario: | Abstract We demonstrate a new platform for minimally invasive, light delivery probes leveraging the maturing field of silicon photonics, enabling massively parallel fabrication of photonic structures. These Photonic Needles probes have sub-10 μm cross-sectional dimensions, lengths greater than 3 mm–surpassing 1000 to 1 aspect ratio, and are released completely into air without a substrate below. We show the Photonic Needles to be mechanically robust when inserted into 2% agarose. The propagation loss of these waveguides is low–on the order of 4 dB/cm. |
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