PARC has developed a variety of novel optical detector components and subsystems.

By integrating expertise from multiple disciplines — including optics, semiconductor physics, system engineering, fluidics, and biochemistry — PARC scientists have enabled a host of low-cost, compact, high-performance optical detection applications.

Example Applications

• Optical Characterization Systems
  • bio-agent detection and characterization — spectroscopy-on-a-chip enables a portable module for class identification of biomolecules in fluids [see example]
  • health care services and point-of-care detection
  • environmental monitoring
  • industrial process control
     
• Optical Sensing Systems
  • interrogation units for optical sensors — lightweight, robust, and inexpensive read out with sub-picometer resolution [see example]
  • structural health monitoring
  • automotive sensing and information processing
  • biochemical sensing