Patent ID: 9630182
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: B01L,C12Q

Claim:
1. An apparatus, comprising: a plurality of reaction chambers, each reaction chamber to hold a fluid; a heat source to heat the reaction chamber and the fluid, wherein the heat source does not contact the reaction chamber or the fluid, and the reaction chamber and the fluid separately absorb heat radiation from the heat source, the heat source including a plurality of infrared lasers, each infrared laser having a different wavelength, outputs of the infrared lasers being coupled together as to form a single heat source for the reaction chamber; a temperature sensor to acquire a temperature of the reaction chamber and/or the fluid; and control circuitry configured to control the heat source independently for each of the reaction chambers according to a corresponding cycling profile for a chemical or biochemical reaction in the fluid to cycle the heat source between heating and not heating each of the reaction chambers and the fluid based on a corresponding temperature acquired by the temperature sensor.