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- the present invention generally relates to a method and system for detecting biomolecular interactions, and more particularly to the detection of colorimetric resonant optical biosensor peak wavelength values using tunable filters and tunable lasers.
- Biosensors have been developed to detect a variety of biomolecular interactions including antibody-antigen, hormone-receptor, and enzyme-substrate interactions. Biosensors include a highly specific recognition element and a transducer that converts a molecular recognition event into a quantifiable signal. Signal transduction has been accomplished by many methods including fluorescence, interferometry, and gravimetry, for example.
- fluorescent or colorimetric chemical labels are commonly attached to the molecules under study so these molecules may be readily visualized.
- attachment of a label substantially increases assay complexity and possibly alters functionality of the molecules through conformational modification or epitope blocking.
- label free detection techniques include measuring changes in mass, changes in microwave transmission line characteristics, microcantilever deflection, or optical density detection.
- label free biosensor technologies have been limited by the lack of ability to provide high detection sensitivity in a format that is inexpensive to manufacture and package.
- label free detection biosensors fabricated upon semiconductor or glass wafers are costly to produce and package if the sensor area is large enough to contain a number of parallel assays.
- providing for electrical connections to individual biosensors in an array of biosensors poses difficult challenges in packaging, and compatibility with fluid exposure, hi addition, many label free biosensor transduction methods (e.g., surface plasmon resonance (“SPR”), output grating coupling, ellipsometry, evanescent wave detection, and reflectance interference spectroscopy (“RIS”)) are rather slow and can be very expensive.
- SPR surface plasmon resonance
- RIS reflectance interference spectroscopy
- some of these label free detection methods are limited to dry samples, and thus are not suited for samples immersed in fluid. This substantially limits applications for these biosensors.
- a measuring apparatus for detecting a biochemical interaction on a biosensor.
- the measuring apparatus comprises a light source that generates collimated white light and directs the collimated white light towards a surface of the biosensor.
- the apparatus also includes a tunable filter that receives light transmitted through the biosensor and passes a narrow band of light that has wavelengths substantially centered at a passband wavelength and reflects substantially all other wavelengths. The passband wavelength may be adjusted according to a tuning voltage of the tunable filter.
- the measuring apparatus includes a tunable laser light source and a photodiode detector.
- the tunable laser light source generates light that has a tunable laser wavelength and directs the light towards a surface of the biosensor.
- the tunable laser wavelength is tuned by adjusting a tuning voltage.
- the photodiode detector receives light transmitted through the biosensor and detects a broad band of wavelengths encompassing a wavelength passband. An output of the photodiode detector quantifies an amount of the light transmitted through the biosensor as a function of the tuning voltage.
- an apparatus for detecting a maximum wavelength of reflected light comprises a light source that generates collimated white light and a power splitter that directs the collimated white light towards a surface of a sensor.
- the apparatus further comprises a tunable detector that receives light reflected by the sensor and measures a radiation spectrum of the light reflected from the sensor.
- the tunable detector filters a narrow band of light that has wavelengths substantially centered at a passband wavelength from the light reflected by the sensor and this passband wavelength is adjusted according to a tuning voltage of the tunable detector.
- the apparatus for detecting a maximum wavelength of reflected light comprises a tunable laser light source, an optical circulator, and a photodiode detector.
- the tunable laser light source generates a tunable single wavelength of light and can be tuned by adjusting a tuning voltage.
- the optical circulator directs the tunable single wavelength of light towards a surface of a sensor.
- the photodiode detector receives light reflected from the biosensor and detects a broad band of wavelengths encompassing a wavelength passband. An output of the photodiode detector quantifies an amount of the light reflected from the biosensor as a function of the tuning voltage.
- Figure 1 illustrates a basic diagram of one embodiment of an optical device
- Figure 2 illustrates an example of measured reflectance spectra of a biosensor by the optical device of Figure 1;
- Figure 3 illustrates one embodiment of a non-tunable diode laser
- FIG 4 illustrates one embodiment of a tunable detector with a top mirror positioned on a micro-electro-mechanical structure ("MEMS");
- MEMS micro-electro-mechanical structure
- Figure 5 A illustrates another embodiment of a tunable detector
- Figures 5B and 5C are schematic diagrams illustrating one embodiment of tuning the tunable detector of Figure 5 A;
- Figure 6 illustrates one example of a passband spectra of the tunable detector of Figure 5;
- Figure 7 illustrates one embodiment of colorimetric resonant optical biosensor detection using a tunable filter
- Figure 8 illustrates one embodiment of a process to obtain a measurement of a biosensor resonant wavelength using a tunable filter
- Figure 9 illustrates a side view of one embodiment of a linear array of tunable filters used to measure separate regions of a biosensor surface
- Figure 10 illustrates another embodiment of a process to obtain a measurement of a biosensor resonant wavelength using a tunable filter
- Figure 11 illustrates one example of tuning voltage output, laser wavelength output and photodiode output with respect to time
- Figure 12 illustrates one example of reflectance spectra of a tunable filter coated with two index matching fluids for a typical white light measurement and a vertical cavity surface emitting laser ("VCSEL") measurement of a colorimetric resonant optical biosensor
- Figure 13 illustrates one embodiment of a detection configuration using a tunable filter/detector to measure the radiation spectrum reflected from a biosensor
- Figure 14 illustrates one embodiment of a configuration used to detect a maximum wavelength of reflected light.
- the present invention generally relates to a method and system for detecting biomolecular interactions. These biomolecular interactions may occur on a surface of a biosensor.
- the biosensor is a colorimetric resonant optical biosensor embedded into a surface of a microarray slide, microtiter plate or other device.
- the colorimetric resonant optical biosensor allows biochemical interactions to be measured on the sensor's surface without the use of fluorescent tags or colorimetric labels.
- the colorimetric resonant optical biosensor provides for label free detection of these interactions.
- label-free detection reference is made to the following commonly owned U.S. Patent Applications, which are all fully incorporated herein by reference: “Method And Instrument For Detecting Biomolecular Interactions," as described in U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 10/180,374, filed on June 26, 2002; "Method
- an optical structure on a surface of the colorimetric resonant optical biosensor is illuminated with collimated white light.
- the optical structure is designed to reflect only a narrow band of wavelengths, which is described as a wavelength "peak.”
- the peak wavelength value (“PWV”) changes when biological material is deposited or removed from the biosensor surface.
- a tunable laser may illuminate the biosensor. Biochemical interactions may then be detected using a tunable detector or a tunable filter. A spectrum interpretation can then be transduced to a dynamic protein characteristic that is attached to the biosensor.
- FIG. 1 illustrates one embodiment of an optical device 100 that comprises an optical fiber probe measuring apparatus 102 and a biosensor 118.
- biosensor 118 can be incubated in a incubation enclosure and moved to a position for reading. Incubation may occur at a user determined temperature
- an instrument incorporating measuring apparatus 102 may also provide a mechanism for mixing samples within a microtiter plate well while the optical sensor resides inside the apparatus. The mixing could take the form of a shaking mechanism or other type of system. Other examples are possible as well.
- FIG. 1 illustrates a basic design for a PWV detector that can be adapted to a variety of possible instrumentation configurations.
- Measuring apparatus 102 includes a white light source 104 coupled via an illuminating fiber 106 to an optical fiber probe 108, which includes a detection head 110.
- a collimating lens 112 is positioned over optical fiber probe 108.
- optical fiber probe 108 is coupled via a detecting fiber 114 to a spectrometer 116.
- Biosensor 118 is positioned above collimating lens 112.
- a test sample is placed on biosensor 118 in the space between structures 120 and 122 for binding to receptors on a surface 124.
- Measuring apparatus 102 measures biochemical interactions occurring on surface 124 of biosensor 118 without the use of fluorescent tags or colorimetric labels.
- Optical device 100 may have the characteristics of the biosensor devices as herein previously described, such as a well of microtiter plate.
- biosensor 118 may be embedded within a bottom portion of a conventional microtiter plate.
- Illuminating fiber 106 directs an area of collimated light, via the collimating lens 112, on surface 124, which is preferably a bottom surface of biosensor 118. Illuminating fiber 106 is bundled along with detecting fiber 114 in a unitary optical fiber probe. Detecting fiber 114 is utilized to collect light reflected from biosensor 118. Detecting fiber 114 channels the reflected light to spectrometer 116, which is preferably a wavelength spectrometer. Spectrometer 116 processes the reflected light to determine characteristics of the reflected light. In particular, measuring apparatus 102 collects light reflected from the illuminated biosensor surface 124 and scans detection head 110 across the biosensor surface.
- White light source 104 for example, illuminates about a ⁇ 1 millimeter (mm) diameter region of surface
- microtiter plate nominally normal incidence through the bottom of a microtiter plate, for example.
- a microtiter plate could have a standard 96-well, 384-well, or 1526-well microtiter plate format, but with a biosensor attached to the bottom, for example.
- measuring apparatus 102 can measure certain values, such as the PWV's of a plurality of locations within biosensor 118. Collected reflected light is gathered into spectrometer 116 for processing. For example, spectrometer may then generate a PWV for the biosensor 118.
- Optical device 100 provides for determining the PWV of a colorimetric resonant optical biosensor by simultaneous illumination of a biosensor at normal incidence with a broad band of wavelengths, and simultaneous detection of a broad band of reflected or transmitted wavelengths.
- the illuminating light should be substantially collimated (e.g., parallel) in order to produce a narrow resonance band on the reflected or transmitted radiation spectrum.
- the illuminating radiation can be provided by a white light source, such as a light bulb, or a light emitting diode (LED) with a radiating spectrum that encompasses the resonance wavelength, for example.
- a resonance wavelength When a resonance wavelength is within the band of illuminating wavelengths, a high reflected intensity (or low transmitted intensity) is obtained only at the resonance wavelength.
- the reflected (or transmitted) light is gathered into a spectrometer that accepts light in a range of wavelengths containing the resonance wavelength, the spectrometer can measure the reflected (or transmitted) intensity as a function of wavelength.
- the extent of the shift of reflected wavelength can be used to determine an amount of bound molecules in the sample and the chemical affinity between receptor molecules and an analyte. For example, when molecules are attached to the surface of the biosensor, the reflected wavelength is shifted due to the change of the optical path of light within the grating.
- biosensor 118 when illuminated with white light, is designed to reflect only a single wavelength.
- Subwavelength structured surfaces are generally an unconventional type of diffractive optic that can mimic the effect of thin-film coatings. These structures may be used as antireflection filters, polarizing filters, and narrowband filters. See, e.g. S. Peng and G.M. Morris, "Resonant scattering from two-dimensional gratings," J Opt. Soc. Am. A, Vol. 13, No. 5, p. 993, May 1996; R. Magnusson, and S.S.
- An SWS structure contains a surface-relief grating in which the grating period is small compared to the wavelength of incident light. In this manner, no diffractive orders other than the reflected and transmitted zeroth orders are allowed to propagate.
- a two-dimensional grating is sandwiched between a substrate and a cover layer that fills the grating grooves.
- a waveguide-like region is created.
- incident light passes into the waveguide region and propagates as a leaky mode.
- the grating structure selectively couples light at a narrow band of wavelengths into a mode that can travel laterally across the grating surface. The light propagates only a short distance (on the order of 10-100 micrometers), undergoes scattering, and couples with the forward- and backward-propagating zeroth-order light.
- This sensitive coupling condition can produce the resonant grating effect on the reflected radiation spectrum, resulting in a narrow band of reflected or transmitted wavelengths.
- the reflected wavelength e.g., color
- complementary binding partner molecules can be detected without the use of any kind of fluorescent probe or particle label.
- the detection technique is capable of resolving changes of, for example, -0.1 nanometer (nm) thickness of protein binding, and can be performed with the biosensor surface either immersed in fluid or dried.
- Optical device 100 utilizes a change in the refractive index upon a surface to determine when a chemically bound material is present within a specific location.
- a Plastic Colorimetric Resonant Optical Biosensor for Multiparallel Detection of Label-Free Biochemical Interactions B.T. Cunningham, B. Lin, J. Qiu, P. Li, J. Pepper, and B. Hugh, Sensors and Actuators B, Vol. 85, number 3, November 2002; and "Colorimetric Resonant Reflection as a Direct Biochemical Assay Technique," B.T. Cunnigham, P. Li, B. Lin, and J. Pepper, Sensors and Actuators B, Volume 81, p. 316-328, January 2002; the full disclosures of which are herein incorporated by reference.
- Figure 2 illustrates measured reflectance spectra of biosensor 118 of optical device 100 as gathered from spectrometer 116, which records the intensity of gathered light as a function of wavelength.
- the wavelength measurement range of spectrometer 116 must encompass the resonant wavelength of biosensor 118 to identify biochemical interactions on biosensor 118.
- the resonant wavelength is approximately 765nm. Therefore, a high intensity of reflected light can be collected at this wavelength.
- Measuring apparatus 102 includes a single-point optical spectrometer included in spectrometer 116 to identify biochemical interactions at the resonance wavelength.
- the spectrometer may be any optical device that is capable of measuring the wavelength as a function of intensity of an incoming light source. Typically, this function is performed by allowing an incoming point light source to reflect against the surface of a diffraction grating. Light of different wavelengths will reflect from the grating surface at different angles to spread the incident point source light according to its wavelength content.
- a linear array of optical sensors is positioned to gather the grating-reflected light, where resolvable wavelength illuminates a single element in the optical sensor array.
- measuring apparatus 102 may include tunable components.
- spectrometer 116 may be replaced with a narrowband transmission filter whose transmission wavelength can be tuned over the band that encompasses the biosensor resonance wavelength.
- the tunable filter may be a micro-electro-mechanical (MEM) cantilever containing a Bragg reflector.
- white light source 104 can be replaced with a laser light source (emitting one wavelength at a time) whose wavelength can be tuned over the band that encompasses the biosensor resonance wavelength.
- the tunable laser may be a vertical cavity surface emitting laser ("VCSEL"). Incorporating tunable components into measuring apparatus 102 allows measuring apparatus to adapt to many types of biosensors to measure biochemical interactions therein. For instance, using spectrometer 116, reflected (or transmitted) light is gathered into spectrometer 116 only when the light is in a range of predetermined (and non-tunable) wavelengths.
- measuring apparatus 102 limits operation of measuring apparatus 102 since a high reflected intensity (or low transmitted intensity) is only obtained when a resonance wavelength of the biosensor is within the band of the illuminating radiation form the light source. Therefore, providing a tunable light source and a tunable detector provides for greater flexibility within measuring apparatus 102.
- spectrometers are often very expensive, and tend to be bulky.
- tunable detectors can be designed to be very small (e.g., on the order of 0.1cm), and can be manufactured at a cost of a fraction of a typical spectrometer.
- a tunable light source and a tunable detector may be provided using a number of components.
- the tunable detector and the tunable light source include a VCSEL.
- a VCSEL is a type of semiconductor diode laser whose emission cavity is perpendicular to the wafer plane. Thus, the VCSEL emits an output optical beam in the vertical direction, with respect to the wafer substrate.
- a VCSEL cavity may include two distributed Bragg reflectors ("DBRs") with an active region positioned in-between. Typically, the entire cavity is grown in one single-step epitaxy. Subsequent processing is used to create any necessary current and optical confinements. This unique topology also facilitates simple fabrication of arrays and integration of detectors.
- DBRs distributed Bragg reflectors
- FIG 3 illustrates one embodiment of a non-tunable VCSEL 300.
- the VCSEL 300 includes a top DBR 302, an active region 304, a bottom DBR 306, and a substrate 308.
- Top DBR 302 includes contacts 310.
- Top DBR 302 couples to active region 304 via an oxide confinement 312.
- active region 304 directly couples to bottom DBR 306, which also directly couples to substrate 308.
- Substrate 308 includes a contact 314 positioned on substrate's 308 base.
- the VCSEL300 is formed by many layers of heterostracture material grown in the direction normal to substrate 308.
- VCSEL laser 300 outputs an optical beam from top DBR 302, also in a direction normal to substrate 308.
- Top DBR 302 may comprise a p-doped DBR ("p-DBR"), such as an AlGaAs/GaAs composition.
- contact 310 may be a p-doped contact.
- Bottom DBR 306 may comprise an n-doped DBR ("n-DBR”), such as an n-GaAs-AlGaAs composition.
- Contact 314, therefore, may be an n-doped contact.
- Top DBR 302 and bottom DBR 306 comprise alternating layers of semiconductor materials lattice matched to substrate 308, allowing "monolithic" formation of the entire structure during a single epitaxy stage of device fabrication.
- VCSEL300 emits light from a cavity 316 of top DBR 302.
- VCSEL300 emits light when a voltage is applied across contacts 310 and 314.
- the wavelength of the light emitted depends on the amount of voltage applied to the contacts 310 and 314.
- tunable diode laser 300 comprises an active region that is an epitaxial DBR with about 35 layer-pairs of InGaAlAs/InAlAs, and a bottom DBR 300 comprising a dielectric layer stack as a DBR in conjunction with a gold termination. With an applied voltage drop across contacts 310 and 314 of about 0.9V, VCSEL300 emits the 1.55 ⁇ m wavelength.
- the VCSEL 300 may contain any number of layers within the top and bottom DBRs, and within the active region, and may also comprise other materials than presented herein to produce other desired wavelengths than described herein.
- a VCSEL 300 may be made tunable by many different designs. A few examples include a cantilever VCSEL, a membrane VCSEL, and a half-symmetric cavity VCSEL.
- FIG. 4 illustrates an embodiment of a tunable diode laser, such as a tunable VCSEL 400, with a top mirror positioned on a micro-electro-mechanical structure (MEMS).
- Tunable VCSEL 400 includes a substrate 402, a bottom n-DBR 404, a cavity layer 406 including an active region 408, and a top mirror 410.
- the top mirror 410 includes a p-DBR 412, an airgap 414, and a top n-DBR 416.
- Laser drive current is injected through a middle contact 418 via p-DBR 412 and a laser drive contact 420.
- a tuning contact 422 is fabricated on top n-DBR 416.
- Wavelength tuning is accomplished by applying voltage between top n-DBR 416 and p-DBR 412, across airgap 414.
- a reverse bias voltage is used to provide electrostatic force, which attracts a cantilever 424, which is coupled to top n-DBR 416, downward to substrate 402 and shortens airgap 414, thus tuning the laser wavelength toward a shorter wavelength.
- tunable VCSEL 400 emits light normal to a surface of cantilever 424 that has a wavelength based on the length of airgap 414.
- airgap 414 can be adjusted continuously. For example, a continuous tuning range of approximately 32 nm may be achieved with VCSELs centered at a wavelength of 950 nm, with output power greater than 1 mW throughout the tuning range. As tuning is adjusted by applying a voltage to move cantilever 424, the emission speed is limited by the response of cantilever 424, which is typically in the range of microseconds.
- tunable VCSEL 400 may tune over 22 nm continuously and emit a single-mode output with a side mode suppression ratio greater than 45 dB. Tunable VCSEL may transmit at 2.5 giga-bits per second (Gbps) over 100 km single mode fiber.
- tunable VCSELs can be made with the center wavelength range from 0.65-1 micron and 1.5-1.6 micron.
- the reader is referred to C. J. Chang-Hasnain, "Tunable VCSEL," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 6 (2000), the full disclosure of which is herein incorporated by reference.
- VCSELs low-cost manufacturing and high spectral performance. Testing and packaging constitute a large portion of the manufacturing cost of optoelectronic devices. However, in an equivalent topology with light emitting diodes (LEDs), VCSELs can be tested and packaged in similar low-cost manufacturing processes. For example, large size VCSELs emitting at wavelengths of 850 nm, with a typical dimension of 15-20 micron diameter, can be manufactured in volume at low costs for gigabit Ethernet and other low-cost LAN applications. Spectral advantages arise because a VCSEL has an ultra short cavity that supports a single Fabry-Perot mode. Thus, a small diameter VCSEL can be made into a single- wavelength single-mode laser.
- tunable VCSEL 400 can be readily translated into a tunable detector or a tunable filter with surface normal topology and array fabrication capabilities.
- Micromechanically actuated filters can exhibit wide tuning.
- the tuning range of a MEMS-VCSEL is governed by the wavelength difference resulted from maximum deflection of the cantilever.
- the cantilevers are pulled onto the substrate, which may result in device damage and reliability issues.
- a simple analytic approximation of a maximum deflection of the cantilever as well as a capacitive nature of the attractive force is given below in Equation 1.
- FIG. 5 A illustrates one embodiment of a tunable detector 500, which may be similar to tunable VCSEL 400.
- Tunable detector 500 includes a substrate 502, an intrinsic absorption layer 504, a bottom DBR mirror 506, an optical cavity 508, a top DBR mirror 510, an n-contact 512, and a p-contact 514.
- An air gap 516 is inside top DBR mirror 510.
- Top DBR mirror 510 is freely suspended by a cantilever 518 with a gap size corresponding to integer multiples of half wavelengths.
- a voltage tunneling voltage
- cantilever 518 is attracted towards bottom DBR mirror 506, and hence airgap 516 size is reduced. More particularly, when a voltage is applied between top DBR mirror 510 and bottom DBR mirror 506, cantilever 518 experiences an electrostatic force pulling cantilever 518 towards substrate 502. The transmission wavelength is therefore tuned.
- FIGS 5B and 5C are schematic diagrams illustrating one embodiment of tuning tunable filter 500.
- Airgap 516 thickness L is designed to pass light that has a desired
- Tunable detector 500 may be a Fabry-Perot filter, with top and bottom DBR mirrors 510 and 506 forming an optical resonator, and an intrinsic absorption layer under the resonator. Due to multiple reflectances and interferences, only light with a resonant wavelenth will be transmitted through tunable filter 500. All other wavelengths are reflected and the multiple reflections cause constructive and destructive interference. By changing the resonator length through deflection of one of the two mirrors, the transmission peaks can be shifted to the wavelength of a desired length.
- Top and bottom DBR mirrors 510 and 506 may include Bragg gratings.
- the gratings may be long, uniform structures that perform as wavelength-selective reflectors.
- the filter can be configured to perform many different functions. For example, by appropriately selecting the length and depth of the Bragg grating, the reflection spectral response can be made to have a bandpass shape. With this configuration, the device performs as an add/drop filter: one wavelength is transmitted by the gratings, while all other channels are reflected. Another useful device may be realized by making the Bragg grating very shallow, such that peak reflectivity is small.
- Figure 6 illustrates spectra of tunable filter 500 passband.
- the spectra illustrates the wavelength of light transmitted through tunable filter 500 as the tuning voltage is adjusted. As shown, a record of continuous tuning over 100 nm can be achieved.
- the reader is referred to Li, G.S.; Yuen, W.; Chang- Hasnain, C.J. "Wide and continuously tunable (30 nm) detector with uniform characteristics over tuning range”.
- FIG 7 illustrates one embodiment of colorimetric resonant optical biosensor detection using a tunable detector.
- Figure 7 illustrates a biosensor 700 and a tunable detector 702.
- biosensor 700 is illuminated with collimated light at normal incidence from a broadband light source, such as a white light or a light emitting diode ("LED").
- the illuminating light interacts with biosensor 700 so that only a narrow band of wavelengths is reflected, while all other wavelengths are transmitted.
- Biosensor thus produces a peak in reflected intensity as a function of wavelength, and simultaneously produces a minimum in transmitted intensity as a function of wavelength.
- the wavelength of maximum reflectance and minimum transmittance are identical. Thus, determining the wavelength of minimum transmittance also determines the wavelength of peak reflected intensity (or the PWV).
- Tunable detector 702 a tunable filter 704, a photodiode sensor 706, a top DBR 708 and a bottom DBR 710.
- Tunable filter 704 provides a high degree of light transmission
- the passband wavelength, ⁇ f can be controlled over a range of wavelengths
- ⁇ f (min) to ⁇ f (max) should encompass a biosensor resonant wavelength, ⁇ p.
- tunable filter 704 passband When tunable filter 704 passband does not coincide with the biosensor resonant wavelength, a high intensity of light is transmitted through tunable filter 704. When tunable filter 704 passband does coincide with the biosensor resonant wavelength, a low intensity of light is transmitted through tunable filter 704. A minima in transmitted intensity through tunable filter 704 is obtained at the tuning voltage that produces a passband wavelength that is the same as the resonant wavelength of biosensor 700.
- photodiode sensor 706 is positioned beneath tunable filter 704 as shown in Figure 7. In the exemplary embodiment, photodiode sensor 706 can be integrated with tunable filter 704. However, photodiode sensor 706 may also be separate from tunable filter 704. Photodiode sensor 706 may be capable of detecting all wavelengths
- Photodiode sensor 706 generates an electrical current that is
- An output of photodiode sensor 706, V det will quantify the amount of light transmitted through tunable filter 704 as a function of the tuning voltage, Vtrez n .
- Figure 8 illustrates one embodiment of a schematic of a process used to obtain a measurement of the biosensor resonant wavelength using a tunable filter.
- a broadband light source produces an illuminating intensity profile as a function of wavelength
- the light passes through biosensor 700, where all wavelengths
- multiple tunable filters can be integrated into a single surface, where each tunable filter is used to measure transmitted light from a different region on a biosensor surface.
- Each region of the biosensor surface may be activated with a different immobilized molecular receptor (such as different proteins, antibodies, proteins, or DNA).
- a different immobilized molecular receptor such as different proteins, antibodies, proteins, or DNA.
- Figure 9 illustrates a top view of one embodiment of a linear array of 4 tunable filters 902, 904, 906, and 908 used to measure 4 separate regions of a biosensor surface 910, 912, 914, and 916.
- the number of separate filters is limited only by the size of a semiconductor chip, and the density of filter devices, hi one embodiment, all the filters in an array may be adjusted simultaneously with a single tuning voltage, while each integrated photodiode sensor has a separate output.
- Figure 10 illustrates another embodiment of a schematic of a process used to obtain a measurement of the biosensor resonant wavelength using a tunable filter.
- Figure 10 illustrates tunable laser 1002, a biosensor 1004, and a photodiode detector 1006. Initially, biosensor 1004 is illuminated at normal incidence by tunable laser 1002. A laser wavelength,
- iaser is tuned by continuous adjustment of a tuning voltage, V t ⁇ m -
- the tuning voltage adjusts
- the illuminating light interacts with biosensor 1004 so that only a
- Biosensor 1004 thus produces a peak in reflected intensity as a function of wavelengths, and simultaneously produces a minimum in transmitted intensity as a function of wavelength.
- the wavelength of maximum reflectance and minimum transmittance are identical.
- detennining the wavelength of minimum transmittance also determines the wavelength of peak reflected intensity (or, the PWV).
- the light transmitted through biosensor 1004 next illuminates photodiode detector 1006 that is capable of detecting a broad band of wavelengths encompassing ⁇ aSer (min) to ⁇ aS er(max).
- the output of photodiode 1006, V det The output of photodiode 1006, V det ,
- tunable laser 1002 is a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) because VCSELs may be fabricated in integrated arrays with many VCSELs on a single semiconductor chip.
- multiple VCSELs can be integrated into a single surface, where each tunable VCSEL is used to illuminate a different region on the biosensor surface.
- Each region of the biosensor surface may activate with a different immobilized molecular receptor (such as different proteins, antibodies, proteins, or DNA), so that when the entire biosensor surface is exposed to a test sample, different biosensor regions produce shifts in the resonant wavelength corresponding to the amount of material from the test sample that is gathered onto each individual region.
- FIG. 11 illustrates one embodiment of the tuning voltage output, laser wavelength output and photodiode outputs with respect to time.
- the tuning voltage is increased over time, the laser wavelength output from tunable laser 1002 increases as well.
- t pwv when the laser wavelength is at the biosensor resonant wavelength, photodiode 1006 has a minimum in its output.
- a tunable filter and a tunable laser source are used within colorimetric resonant optical detection.
- the tunable filter and tunable laser source may replace a light source, spectrometer, and a detector array as used in existing implementations (e.g., See Figure 1).
- the transmission spectra using a VCSEL has a full width at half maximum of 0.4 nm, about 1/3 of that using white light.
- biosensor resonance measured with laser excitation produces a more narrow resonant peak than the same biosensor measured by the conventional method (white light illumination and spectrometer detection).
- the improved behavior may be a result of the more highly collimated and coherent nature of laser light compared to white light.
- a more narrow resonance can measure small shifts in PWV with finer resolution, thus improving the signal-to-noise ratio for determining shifts in PWV.
- the higher resolution results in a sensor instrument with the ability to measure lower concentration analytes in test solutions, or smaller molecules with enhanced resolution.
- the wavelength output of a tunable laser may be continuously adjusted with fine control of the tunable laser's tuning voltage.
- Wavelength tuning accuracy proportional to the linewidth of the VCSEL may be obtained for such systems.
- spectrometer systems measure the intensity of each wavelength in the spectrum in discrete bins, whose resolution is determined by the period of a reflection grating inside the spectrometer, the size of the spectrometer, and the spatial separation (resolution) of pixels within a linear array of photodiodes that interface to the spectrometer output.
- the separation between wavelength bins is 0.14 nm
- the separation between wavelength bins is 0.06 nm.
- current PWV-shift resolution is approximately 0.001 nm.
- the use of a tunable laser illuminating source can potentially increase PWV detection resolution by an order of magnitude without incurring the cost and size disadvantages of high resolution spectrometer instruments. It is important to note that the resolution advantage may be obtained without making any change to the biosensor.
- the size of a colorimetric resonant optical biosensor readout instrument based on tunable laser or tunable filter readout can be very small.
- a laser power supply and voltage tuning circuit are included.
- For a tunable filter output only a low voltage tuning circuit is needed.
- the tuning circuits can be built using integrated circuit technology to make a biosensor readout interface that is small enough to be handheld. Handheld instruments may be useful in medical diagnostics (such as emergency room or intensive care units), outdoor applications such as environmental monitoring, or placement of self-contained sensor systems within building air ducts.
- FIG. 13 illustrates one embodiment of a detection configuration using tunable filter/detector to measure the radiation spectrum reflected from a biosensor.
- the configuration includes a LED 1302, a power splitter 1304, an optical fiber probe 1306, a collimation device 1308, a biosensor 1310, and a tunable detector 1312.
- illuminating broadband light from LED 1302 is coupled into optical fiber probe 1306 through power splitter 1304.
- the reflected light is gathered by optical fiber probe 1306, and passed to power splitter 1304.
- Power splitter 1304 sends some of the light to tunable filter/detector 1312.
- Figure 14 illustrates another embodiment of a configuration used to detect a maximum wavelength of reflected light.
- Figure 14 illustrates a tunable VCSEL 1402, an optical circulator 1404, a collimation device 1408, a beam expansion device 1406, a biosensor 1410, and a PLN detector 1412.
- illuminating single wavelength light from tunable VCSEL 1402 is coupled into collimating device 1408 and beam expander 1406 through optical circulator 1410.
- the reflected light is gathered by collimator 1408 and beam expander 1406, and optical circulator 1410 directs some of the light to PLN detector 1412.
- a peak reflecting wavelength can be determined by maximizing PLN detector 1412 signal while varying tunable VCSEL 1402 emission wavelength.
- tunable VCSEL 1402 wavelength is tuned, only the wavelength that corresponds to the resonance wavelength of biosensor 1410 resonant will be reflected from biosensor 1410, which performs as a narrow passband reflector.
- the resolving power, or resolution, of a detector is a measure of how well the detector can distinguish between two slightly different wavelengths, hi this case, the resolution will be the laser linewidth.
- Typical VCSEL linewidth is on the order of 100 MHz, which is about 200fm at 850nm.
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