“LumiConSense: A Transparent, Flexible, Scalable, and Disposable Image Sensor Using Thin-Film Luminescent Concentrators” by Koppelhuber, Wintersberger, Birklbauer and Bimber
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Entry Number: 16
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- LumiConSense: A Transparent, Flexible, Scalable, and Disposable Image Sensor Using Thin-Film Luminescent Concentrators
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Our sensor [Koppelhuber and Bimber 2013] consists of a thin, transparent polycarbonate film, referred to as luminescent concentrator (LC), that is doped with fluorescent dyes. Light of a particular wavelength sub-band that penetrates the film is emitted in longer wavelengths, while wavelengths outside the sub-band are fully transmitted. The example shown in figure 1(a) absorbs blue and emits green light. The emitted light is mostly trapped inside the film by total internal reflection (TIR), and is transported with reduced multi-scattering towards the LC edges while losing energy over transport distance. The bright film edges indicate decoupling of the light integral transported to each edge point from all directions inside the LC.
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KOPPELHUBER, A., AND BIMBER, O. 2013. Towards a transparent, flexible, scalable and disposable image sensor using thinfilm luminescent concentrators. Opt. Express 21.
KOPPELHUBER, A., BIRKLBAUER, C., IZADI, S., AND BIMBER, O. 2014. A transparent thin-film sensor for multi-focal image reconstruction and depth estimation. Submitted to Opt. Express.
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This work was supported by Microsoft Research under contract number 2012-030(DP874903) – LumiConSense.
