From optical to dynamic biochips

In order to analyze and better understand our environment, mankind has developed numerous increasingly sophisticated physical and chemical sensors for measuring all kinds of parameters. In sectors such as biomedicine, the chemical industry or the environment requiring biomolecular analysis, the miniaturization of sensors takes on its full meaning in order to overcome potential problems of reagent quantity or use in the field. On the one hand, the boom in the telecoms sector (fibers, integrated optics, sources, processing resources, etc.), and on the other, the development of genomics over the last twenty years, have led to the development of high-capacity information systems, enabling new tools called optical biochips to detect, analyze and characterize a wide range of biomolecular interactions. The optical biochip is thus a genuine technological platform, the fruit of the alliance of several...