EP 1373875 A2 20040102 - OPTICAL STRUCTURE FOR MULTI-PHOTON EXCITATION AND THE USE THEREOF
Title (en)
OPTICAL STRUCTURE FOR MULTI-PHOTON EXCITATION AND THE USE THEREOF
Title (de)
OPTISCHE STRUKTUR ZUR MULTI-PHOTONEN-ANREGUNG UND DEREN VERWENDUNG
Title (fr)
STRUCTURE OPTIQUE D'EXCITATION MULTIPHOTON ET SON UTILISATION
Publication
Application
Priority
- CH 6172001 A 20010402
- CH 6892001 A 20010412
- EP 0202958 W 20020318
Abstract (en)
[origin: WO02079765A2] The invention relates to a variable embodiment of an optical structure, comprising an optical waveguide with a wave-guiding layer (a) that is transparent at at least one excitation wavelength. Said optical structure is characterised in that the intensity of excitation light that is input into the layer (a) and guided through said layer (a) is sufficiently high on and in said layer (a) to excite molecules capable of luminescence and/or photoreactive molecules located on the surface of the layer (a) or at a distance of less than 200 nm from the latter (a), by means of multi-photon excitation, preferably two-photon excitation. Preferred embodiments are those which allow a linear or planar multi-photon excitation along the excitation light that is guided through the layer (a). The invention also relates to various embodiments of optical systems and analytical systems comprising an excitation light source and an inventive embodiment of an optical structure and to methods based thereon, in particular to luminescence excitation and to the luminescent detection of one or several analytes by means of multi-photon excitation, in addition to the use of said embodiments and methods.
IPC 1-7
IPC 8 full level
G01N 27/62 (2006.01); G01N 21/55 (2006.01); G01N 21/64 (2006.01); G01N 21/75 (2006.01); G01N 21/77 (2006.01); G01N 21/78 (2006.01); G01N 27/64 (2006.01); G01N 33/15 (2006.01); G01N 33/53 (2006.01); G01N 33/532 (2006.01); G01Q 60/18 (2010.01); G01Q 60/20 (2010.01); G01Q 60/22 (2010.01); G01Q 80/00 (2010.01); G02B 6/12 (2006.01)
CPC (source: EP US)
G01N 21/552 (2013.01 - EP US); G01N 21/6428 (2013.01 - EP US); G01N 21/648 (2013.01 - EP US); G01N 21/774 (2013.01 - EP US); G01N 2021/6419 (2013.01 - EP US); G01N 2021/7709 (2013.01 - EP US); G01N 2021/7786 (2013.01 - EP US); G01N 2021/7793 (2013.01 - EP US); G02B 2006/12107 (2013.01 - EP US)
Citation (search report)
See references of WO 02079765A2
Designated contracting state (EPC)
AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE TR
DOCDB simple family (publication)
WO 02079765 A2 20021010; WO 02079765 A3 20030130; AU 2002257671 A1 20021015; EP 1373875 A2 20040102; JP 2004530125 A 20040930; US 2004052489 A1 20040318
DOCDB simple family (application)
EP 0202958 W 20020318; AU 2002257671 A 20020318; EP 02727426 A 20020318; JP 2002577546 A 20020318; US 47332503 A 20030929