Abstract

This paper describes fabrication and implementation of distributed optical fiber tip biosensor probes for simultaneously measuring label-free biomolecular interactions at multiple locations. Biosensor probes at the tip of a single-mode fiber are Fabry–Perot etalons that are functionalized with a capture layer for a specific biomolecule. A coherence multiplexing method is implemented to separate data collected from distributed biosensors in a single data stream. Multiplexing is achieved by using fiber tip biosensors of varying etalon lengths with the same or different capture layers for each biosensing channel. Experiments demonstrating simultaneous multi-channel recording of protein-to-protein interaction sensorgrams with fiber tip biosensor probes are presented.

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