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- Title
Analysis of Light Gathering Abilities of Dynamically Solidified Micro-lenses, and Their Implementation to Improve Sensitivity of Fluorescent PCR Micro-detectors.
- Authors
Wu, Jian; Guo, Wei; Wang, Chunyan; Yu, Kuanxin; Chen, Tao; Li, Yinghui
- Abstract
Fluorescent polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is becoming the preferred method of quantitative analysis due to its high specificity and sensitivity. We propose to use a new kind of micro-lens, dynamically solidified with optic glue, to improve the sensitivity of fluorescent PCR micro-detector. We developed light ray track equations for these lenses and used them to calculate relative light intensity distribution curve for stimulation lenses and illumination point probability distribution curve for detection lenses. We manufactured dynamically solidified micro-lenses using optic glue NOA61, and measured their light gathering ability. Lenses with radius/thickness ( R/ H) ratio of 4 reached light focusing ratio of 3.85 (stimulation lens) and photon collection efficiency of 0.86 (detection lens). We then used dynamically solidified lenses in PCR fluorescence micro-detector and analyzed their effect on the detector sensitivity. We showed that the use of dynamically solidified micro-lenses with R/ H = 4 resulted in over 4.4-fold increased sensitivity of the detector.
- Subjects
MICROLENSES; POLYMERASE chain reaction; SENSITIVITY analysis; FLUORESCENCE; DETECTORS; LIGHT intensity
- Publication
Cell Biochemistry & Biophysics, 2015, Vol 72, Issue 2, p559
- ISSN
1085-9195
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12013-014-0502-7