Patent ID: 7507575
Filing Date: 2009-03-24
Classification: G01N

Abstract:
1. A detection device comprising: a disk having a plurality of process chambers each holding a respective sample and at least one of two or more fluorescent dyes, wherein at least one of the process chambers holds two or more of the fluorescent dyes; a motor to rotate the disk; a plurality of optical modules; and a housing having a plurality of locations adapted to receive the optical modules, each of the plurality of locations having a respective fiber optic coupler mounted therein, wherein each of the plurality of optical modules are removable from the locations of the housing; wherein each of the optical modules includes an optical channel having a light source selected for a different one of the dyes, a lens to capture fluorescent light emitted from the disk, and an optical output port adapted to engage any of the fiber optic couplers mounted within the plurality of locations of the module housing, wherein in each of the optical modules the lens is optically coupled to the output port to deliver the fluorescent light collected by the lens to the optical output port of the optical module.