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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 26, 2007
Laura Marcu, Davis, CA (US);
Javier A. JO, College Station, TX (US);
Daniel Elson, London, GB;
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that characterizes a biological sample by analyzing light emissions from the biological sample in response to an excitation. The system first radiates the biological sample with a laser impulse to cause the biological sample to produce a responsive light emission. Next, the system uses a wavelength splitting device to split the responsive light emission into a set of spectral bands of different central wavelengths. The system applies temporal delays to the set of spectral bands so that each spectral band arrives at an optical detector at a different time, thereby allowing the optical detector to temporally resolve the responsive light emission for each spectral band separately. Next, the system captures the delayed spectral bands within a single detection window of the optical detector. The system then processes the captured spectral bands.