SECONDARY EXCITATION DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDE SENSOR AND ITS USE IN IMMUNOASSAYS

摘要

ABSTRACTThe present invention comprises a novel doped dielectricwaveguide structure that is useful in spectrophotometricassays of analytes in fluid. The dielectric waveguide hasa specifically doped core having several concentric corelayers. The core is doped with a compound which caninteract with a primary signal radiation from an analyte insolution so as to form an amplified secondary signal radiation.