Mosquito scientific instrument is a complete solution for muscle physiology studies. It consists of a Mosquito sensor, piezo xyz micromanipulator(s), a physiological bath, and other components
fabrication process of the Mosquito Scientific System
One type of transducer made by SENSORICA members, for the Mosquito sensor
Assemble the joint-type transducer from individual components - mirror, joint, connector and possibly adapter.
This is a component, a glass capillary, used in joint-type transducer fabrication, and probably in other transducers as well (TBD).
It was also used to fabricate glass ball lens by melting the a capillary with a butane torch.
The lever is a silver coated rod (can be a glass fiber). The coating is applied on the tip. If glass fiber, after the it has been properly cleaved silver is coated on one tip.
optical fiber coating: fiber preparation - cleaving and cleaning, coat glass fiber tip with silver
shrinking: assemble the lever with the delivery fiber.
Metallic mirror applied to the lever of a joint-type transducer. The mirror is applied in house by the optical fiber wet coating process.
Mirrors might be used in other types of transducers as well.
Optical fiber coating. At this moment we only have the wet coating process, perfected by Francois.
This process can be used for the joint-type transducer and for the constriction-type transducer.
120 ml. see Silver Concentrate for details
120 ml
see Silver concentrate for details
120 ml silver solution concentrate (AgNO3+NH3), must be mixed with silver activator (NaOH) + reducer (formaldehyde in methanol)
improve double side mirrors coating
A precise, optical fiber-based displacement/force transducer. Used in the Mosquito Scientific Instrument. First designed and tested by Tibi and Ivan in 2010.
Optical guide, can be of glass of polymer. Usually it comes in a cylindrical shape. Can be MM (multimode) or SM (single mode)
a device to perform wet silver coating
Microscopes are used to observe small objects. They come in many types.
Type of work - Assembling or making of optical/photonics parts. This type of work requires some techniques and training. Manufacturing can be done manually or using some equipment. This is about making stuff to be exchanged on the market, or about making prototypes or demos, for marketing and sales purposes.
Quality control process of the mirror.
Type of work - Quality control type of work. This is a general category that applies for many manufacturing processes.
Connects two optical guides together. There are many types of connectors: ST, FC, SC, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_fiber_connector
Connecting a lever (that has a mirror) to a delivery fiber, with a polymer joint, to fabricate the joint-type transducer. Uses the oven.
Shrinking of the polymer tube for the fabrication of the joint-type transducer. Requires the use of equipment and tools.
Device used for the shrinking process in the joint-type transducer fabrication.
Microscopes are used to observe small objects. They come in many types.
polymer tube that shrinks in diameter when heated. Can be used in electronics, or to assemble the joint-type transducer.
used to measure temperature.
Type of work - Assembling or making of optical/photonics parts. This type of work requires some techniques and training. Manufacturing can be done manually or using some equipment. This is about making stuff to be exchanged on the market, or about making prototypes or demos, for marketing and sales purposes.
Quality testing process for the entire transducer. A datasheet is created.
Type of work - Quality control type of work. This is a general category that applies for many manufacturing processes.
Type of work - Assembling mechanical parts. This type of work requires some techniques and training. Manufacturing can be done manually or using some equipment. This is about making stuff to be exchanged on the market, or about making prototypes or demos, for marketing and sales purposes.
Quality testing of the entire transducer
Type of work - Quality control type of work. This is a general category that applies for many manufacturing processes.
Device designed to hold a biological sample in the Mosquito Scientific Instrument System.
assemble the bath from all its components
A prototype is linked to a design.
Assembling and QT of the bath's electrical stimulation module
Type of work - Assembling of electronics components. This type of work requires some techniques and training. Manufacturing can be done manually or using some equipment. This is about making stuff to be exchanged on the market, or about making prototypes or demos, for marketing and sales purposes.
Quality control processes for the bath
Type of work - Quality control type of work. This is a general category that applies for many manufacturing processes.
The Mosquito sensor is an opto-electronic device designed to interpret data from optical fiber-based displacement/force transducers.
Assemble the Mosquito sensor using all made components
This is a generic category for the electronic layer of the Mosquito. This electronic layer contains modules for signal acquisition, i.e. reading a photodiode, signal conditioning (amplification, filtering and others), numeration and operations on data (ADC and DAC, DSP...).
If you use this resource type you need to specify which prototype or sub-product you are using.
See this doc for different versions of the electronic layer
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lUcR376j7tqXnkwuLuBDfzvTcqASJ_Lok6zIO2ZZFd0/edit#
Assembly of all electronics parts of the Mosquito
This is a circuit board that mixes the laser driver created by Frederic and the photodiode circuit created by Jonathan. Development was done by Jonathan.
Type of work - Assembling of electronics components. This type of work requires some techniques and training. Manufacturing can be done manually or using some equipment. This is about making stuff to be exchanged on the market, or about making prototypes or demos, for marketing and sales purposes.
Quality control of the Mosquito electronics once assembled
Type of work - Quality control type of work. This is a general category that applies for many manufacturing processes.
This is a generic category for the optical layer of the Mosquito sensor. Variations of this will contain different configurations of optical/photonics components.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lUcR376j7tqXnkwuLuBDfzvTcqASJ_Lok6zIO2ZZFd0/edit#
Assembling of different optical/photonic modules of the Mosquito
This is an assembly of a PD and a LD, used in the Mosquito and in other types of optical sensors.
Some of them are canned into metal casing. Others can come as fiber assemblies using couplers or circulators
An optical circulator is a special fiber-optic component that can be used to separate optical signals that travel in opposite directions in an optical fiber, analogous to the operation of an electronic circulator. An optical circulator is a three-port device designed such that light entering any port exits from the next. This means that if light enters port 1 it is emitted from port 2, but if some of the emitted light is reflected back to the circulator, it does not come out of port 1, but instead exits from port 3. Circulators can be used to achieve bi-directional transmission over a single fiber. Because of its high isolation of the input and reflected optical powers and its low insertion loss, optical circulators are widely used in advanced communication systems and fiber-optic sensor applications.
Optical circulators are non-reciprocal optics, which means that changes in the properties of light passing through the device are not reversed when the light passes through in the opposite direction. This can only happen when the symmetry of the system is broken, for example by an external magnetic field. A Faraday rotator is another example of a non-reciprocal optical device.
Connects optical guides: n inputs to m outputs. Works in reverse.
Type of work - Assembling or making of optical/photonics parts. This type of work requires some techniques and training. Manufacturing can be done manually or using some equipment. This is about making stuff to be exchanged on the market, or about making prototypes or demos, for marketing and sales purposes.
Quality testing of the optical layer once assembled.
Type of work - Quality control type of work. This is a general category that applies for many manufacturing processes.
Type of work - Assembling mechanical parts. This type of work requires some techniques and training. Manufacturing can be done manually or using some equipment. This is about making stuff to be exchanged on the market, or about making prototypes or demos, for marketing and sales purposes.
Type of work - Assembling mechanical parts. This type of work requires some techniques and training. Manufacturing can be done manually or using some equipment. This is about making stuff to be exchanged on the market, or about making prototypes or demos, for marketing and sales purposes.