Optical design for fluorescence

Optical design, component selection, integration, and assembly

Our client needed a system specifically designed to distinguish the fluorescence signal from two separate wells under illumination inside a centrifuge. After a preliminary design evaluation, ASENSE’s team of optical engineers proposed a solution based on a one-to-one relay for each sample well over a hard aperture, which then transmits the signal from each sample well to a separate photodiode.

After evaluating this first preliminary design proposal, it was verified that the proposed solution was viable and that the system worked.

The final design was based on off-the-shelf components, combined with a single custom-designed and manufactured element: the piece responsible for spatially filtering the signals from each separate well. The resulting signal leakage from one well to another was less than 0.1%.

In just six weeks, ASENSE delivered the desired system to the client, fully operational and meeting all requirements. This was made possible by our work system and the team of professionals at ASENSE.

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