Planar photonic chips with tailored angular transmission for high-contrast-imaging devices

Yan Kuai; Junxue Chen; Zetao Fan; Gang Zou; Joseph. R. Lakowicz; Douguo Zhang

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-27231-6

Nature Communications (Nov 2021)

Planar photonic chips with tailored angular transmission for high-contrast-imaging devices

Yan Kuai,
Junxue Chen,
Zetao Fan,
Gang Zou,
Joseph. R. Lakowicz,
Douguo Zhang

Affiliations

Yan Kuai: Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Advanced Laser Technology Laboratory of Anhui Province, Department of Optics and Optical Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China
Junxue Chen: College of Science, Guilin University of Technology
Zetao Fan: Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Advanced Laser Technology Laboratory of Anhui Province, Department of Optics and Optical Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China
Gang Zou: CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China
Joseph. R. Lakowicz: Center for Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Douguo Zhang: Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Advanced Laser Technology Laboratory of Anhui Province, Department of Optics and Optical Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27231-6
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The authors design a planar photonic chip with several multilayers of photonic band gaps and a region of dielectric nanoparticles for tailored angular transmission. They use it as sample substrate for high-contrast darkfield and total internal reflection microscopy on a conventional microscope.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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