Patent ID: 7846391

Claim:
An apparatus for analyzing one or more analyte comprising: (a) one or more light pipes for use in generating luminescence, wherein each light pipe includes an excitation source which provides excitation energy, and a luminescent material which acts as a secondary absorber of the excitation energy, and wherein the luminescent material, when excited by the excitation source, generates and emits luminescence through an exit region of the light pipe; (b) luminescence relay optics for directing the luminescence at one or more wavelengths, from the one or more light pipes, onto one or more analyte; (c) emission relay optics for directing emitted light, from the one or more analyte as a reaction to the luminescence, onto one or more light detector; and (d) one or more light detector which is used for detecting the presence of the one or more analyte, based on the emitted light.