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Optica, Optics Letters, 11(35), p. 1890, 2010

DOI: 10.1364/ol.35.001890

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Microfluidic droplet grating for reconfigurable optical diffraction

Journal article published in 2010 by J. Q. Yu, Y. Yang, A. Q. Liu, L. K. Chin ORCID, X. M. Zhang
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Abstract

This Letter presents a reconfigurable optical diffraction grating using multiphase droplets on a microfluidic chip. The uniform and evenly spaced circular droplets are generated by continuously dispersing two immiscible liquids into a T junction to produce plugs, which are then transformed into a circular shape at a sudden expansion of the microchannel. In experiments, the droplet grating shows a detection limit of ~6.3x10(-5) when used as an opto fl uidic refractometer and produces different colors as a color filter. Such a grating has the advantages of high stability and wide tunability in droplet size, grating period, and refractive index, making it promising for biochemical and biomaterial applications.