Handbook of Optofluidics

Aaron R. Hawkins is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Director of the Integrated Microfabrication Laboratory at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Holger Schmidt is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

This excellent reference provides broad coverage of the emerging and developing field of optofluidics. The book will be extremely useful for professionals and graduate students working on nanotechnologies that deploy optofluidic designs such as the lab on a chip and optofluidic transport mechanisms. … Those interested in waveguides will find useful information about photonic crystal waveguides and integrated optofluidic waveguides.—OPN Optics & Photonics News, November 2010I've found this book to be very useful, and am delighted that the project has been so successful. From my own perspective, the part on optical elements and devices is a great reference, and the data in the appendices will save my students a lot of time in the future!—Graham A. Turnbull, University of St. Andrews, Scotland

• Foundations of Optofluidics. Definition of Optofluidics. Micro- and Nanofluidic Fundamentals. Spectroscopic Methods. Microfabrication. Optoelectronics. Passive Integrated Optics. Photonic Crystals. Lab-on-a-chip. Optical Elements and Devices. Fluid Controlled Optical Elements. Imaging Elements. Fluid Filled Photonic Crystals. Ring Resonators. Optofluidic Light Sources. Bioanalysis. Single Molecule Detection. Raman Detection in Microchips and Microchannels. Fluid Filled Optical Fibers. Integrated Optofluidic Waveguides. Flow Cytometry. Optical Trapping and Manipulation. Plasmonics. Outlook. Appendices.