we design and simulate a five-port optical router, which is composed of twenty mach-zehnder-based switching elements and twelve waveguide crossings for use in integrated photonic interconnection networks. we simulated and analyzed the operation of the proposed optical router from the aspects of insertion loss, power budget, q-factor and the minimum bit error ratio by use of optisystem simulator...

The newly introduced Agilent 5100 Automated Lab-on-a-Chip Platform (ALP) offers a high-throughput system to overcome the limitations of slab gel analysis in protein and DNA sizing and quantitation. Agilent, well established in the classical analytical business providing gas and liquid chromatography as well as mass spectrometry instrumentation, has now moved further into the life sciences with ...

Near field generated by plasmonic structures has recently been proposed to trap small objects. We report the first integration of plasmonic trapping with microfluidics for lab-on-a-chip applications. A three-layer plasmo-microfluidic chip is used to demonstrate the trapping of polystyrene spheres and yeast cells. This technique enables cell immobilization without the complex optics required for...

About a year ago we were charged, by the Lab on a Chip Editorial Board, to edit a themed issue on fundamental principles and techniques in microfluidics. The outcome is this set of nontraditional reviews, each written as a primer for those in the Lab on a Chip audience unfamiliar with the specific topic and/or as a critical review of recent developments for more advanced researchers. Since micr...