Journal
OPTIK
Volume 241, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER GMBH
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijleo.2021.166969
Keywords
Optical fiber biosensor; Optical ball resonator; Optical backscatter reflectometry; Thrombin; Aptamer; Biosensor
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- Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan [091019CRP2117, 240919FD3908]
- NATO, Belgium, Science for Peace and Security program [G5486]
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A ball resonator located on the tip of an optical fiber has been developed as a biosensor for detecting thrombin using a CO2 laser splicing method. The device, with high sensitivity, can measure protein concentrations in a wide range and has a detection limit of 1.56 pM in logarithmic response.
A ball resonator, positioned on the tip of an optical fiber, has been developed as a biosensor for the prototypic detection of thrombin. The device was fabricated with a fast and repeatable CO2 laser splicing method, followed by gold-sputtering and functionalization for the measurement of various protein concentrations. The ball resonator acts as a weak interferometer with a return loss below - 50 dB, and it is interrogated with an optical backscatter reflectometer measuring the reflection spectrum. We report here a sample presenting high sensitivity (1273.74 nm/RIU, RIU = refractive index units), which allows protein detection in the range 0.4-100 pM, with a limit of detection of 1.56 pM in logarithmic response.
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