Location: Istituto di Intelligenza Meccanica (Pisa, Area CNR)
Lab head: Prof. Fabrizio Di Pasquale
Contact: fabrizio.dipasquale@santannapisa.it
Lab Team
Fabrizio Di Pasquale
Istituto di Intelligenza Meccanica
Claudio Otón
Istituto di Intelligenza Meccanica
Riccardo Funari
Istituto di Intelligenza Meccanica
Francesca Samà
Istituto di Intelligenza Meccanica
Lab Mission
The objective of the Bright Laboratory is the development of a multi-purpose integrated photonic lab-on-chip platform for detection of contamination in liquids and for biomarkers-based diagnostic/prognostic. The BRIGHT laboratory will enable the test of new functionalization for different applications. The lab-on-chip will allow to measure contaminations on remote sites as well as perform point–of–care services for medical experimentations. Besides, the fully equipped laboratory will allow testing of other advanced technologies based on microfluidics.
Devices
Fluidic system
The fluidic system includes a liquid pump, an electromechanical valve with multiports, and all the necessary tubes to connect the liquid ports.
This system is used to pump the liquids into the sensing device at a controlled rate. The pump is model Darwin NE-4000-ES, a double-syringe system, which allows pumping two different ports at the same time, which enables proportional infusion and multiplexing different analytes at the same time.
The multiport valve is model LVF-MUX-D-12 from Elveflow. It includes 12 liquid inputs and one output, controlled electronically through a serial port.
Tunable laser
Model Santec TSL-570, which is a tunable laser for the range 1500-1630nm wavelength, with a resolution of 0.1pm. It also includes an acquisition mainframe with four input ports for transmission spectra. This device is regularly used to characterize the spectral response of the optical components integrated on chips.
Data sheet: download
Optical interrogator
The instrument (model Luna Technologies Hyperion si155) is a unit that can be used to characterize optical responses at high speeds (up to 1 kHz). It can also follow spectral features (peaks or fringes) in a multiplexed scheme with exceptionally high extinction ratio.
Data sheet: download