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dc.contributor.authorSong, Chaolong
dc.contributor.authorNguyen, Nam-Trung
dc.contributor.authorTan, Say-Hwa
dc.contributor.authorAsundi, Anand Krishna
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-18T12:31:17Z
dc.date.available2019-01-18T12:31:17Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.date.modified2014-08-11T00:47:36Z
dc.identifier.issn0960-1317
dc.identifier.doi10.1088/0960-1317/19/8/085012
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/62161
dc.description.abstractA micro optofluidic lens is formed by laminar streams of immiscible liquids with different refractive indices. This paper reports modelling and characterization for a new design of a micro optofluidic lens. The lens has a circular chamber allowing the formation of interfaces with a perfect arc shape. The inlet and the outlet of the lens chamber are placed with an offset to the chamber axis to achieve a radius of curvature smaller than the limiting chamber radius. A model mathematically predicts the relationship between the flow rate ratio and the curvature of the interface and the resulting focal length. The device was fabricated and tested with laser light guided by optical fibres. Experiments were carried out to verify the analytical model. Benzyl alcohol and ethylene glycol were used as optical media to form the lens. Due to the small radius of curvature, better focusing ability than the previous symmetric design was achieved. On-chip focusing with fibre-to-fibre transmission was demonstrated with this micro optofluidic lens.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
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dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherInstitute of Physics Publishing
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom085012-1
dc.relation.ispartofpageto7085012-6
dc.relation.ispartofissue8
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Micromechanics and Microengineering
dc.relation.ispartofvolume19
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEngineering
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEngineering practice and education not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode40
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode401099
dc.titleA micro optofluidic lens with short focal length
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.rights.copyright© 2009 Institute of Physics Publishing. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
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gro.griffith.authorNguyen, Nam-Trung
gro.griffith.authorTan, Say Hwa H.


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