Optical detection system
AssigneeAnalogic Corporation
InventorSongping Gao
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Abstract
An optical detection system includes a detector configured to detect a signal emitted from a sample carrier and generate an output indicative of the signal detected by the detector. The sample carrier emits the signal in response to the sample carrier being scanned by an excitation source, the emitted signal is indicative of a structural characteristic of the sample carrier, and the sample carrier includes bulk material, at least one material free chamber and a bulk material/chamber interface for each chamber. The optical detection system further includes a data evaluator that identifies the structural characteristic of the sample carrier based on the output of the detector and generates data indicative of the identified structural characteristic.
Claims24
An optical detection system, comprising:
- a detector configured to detect a signal emitted from a sample carrier and generate an output indicative of the signal detected by the detector,
- wherein the sample carrier emits the signal in response to the sample carrier being scanned by an excitation source, the emitted signal is indicative of a structural characteristic of the sample carrier, and the sample carrier includes bulk material, at least one material free chamber and a bulk material/chamber interface for each chamber;
- and
- a data evaluator that identifies the structural characteristic of the sample carrier based on the output of the detector and generates data indicative of the identified structural characteristic.
A method, comprising:
- obtaining a signal indicative of a structural characteristic of a sample carrier, wherein the signal is emitted by the sample carrier in response to illuminating the sample carrier with an excitation signal;
- obtaining information indicative of an origin of the emission of the signal from the sample carrier;
- determining a location of a chamber of the sample carrier based on the signal and the information;
- and
- employing the location to focus a second excitation signal at a sample in the chamber for processing the sample in the chamber.
Computer readable instructions encoded on computer readable storage medium, which, when executed by a processor of a computing system causes the processor to:
- identify a location of a chamber of a sample carrier based on a Raman scatter signal emitted from the sample carrier;
- and
- employ the location of the chamber to direct an excitation signal at a sample in the chamber to process the sample.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.