Rare earth-doped glass microbarcodes

Rare earth-doped glass microbarcodes.

The development of ultraminiaturized identification tags has applications in fields ranging from advanced biotechnology to security. This paper describes micrometer-sized glass barcodes containing a pattern of different fluorescent materials that are easily identified by using a UV lamp and an optical microscope. A model DNA hybridization assay using these "microbarcodes" is described. Rare ear...

Rare-Earth Doped Optical Fibers

An optical fiber becomes active by doping its core with one or more atomic elements, usually (but not restricted to) rare-earths (RE’s), more specifically, the lanthanides that occupy the atomic numbers 57 to 71 of the periodic table. As it will be mentioned later in more detail, they use three electrons in bonding to the condensed materials such as crystals and glasses to become triply ionized...

Sensing Using Rare-Earth-Doped Upconversion Nanoparticles

Optical sensing plays an important role in theranostics due to its capability to detect hint biochemical entities or molecular targets as well as to precisely monitor specific fundamental psychological processes. Rare-earth (RE) doped upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) are promising for these endeavors due to their unique frequency converting capability; they emit efficient and sharp visible or...

Yb-Sensitized Rare-Earth Doped Optical Glasses

The temperature e ect upon infrared-to-visible frequency upconversion uorescence emission in o -resonance infrared excited Yb-sensitized rare-earth doped optical glasses is theoretically and experimentally investigated. We have examined samples of Er3+/Yb-codoped Ga2S3:La2O3 chalcogenide glasses and germanosilicate optical bers, and Ga2O3:La2O3 chalcogenide and uoroindate glasses codoped with P...

Tunable Rare-Earth Doped Fiber Laser