Multimodal optogenetic neural interfacing device fabricated by scalable optical fiber drawing technique

Appl Opt. 2015 Dec 1;54(34):10068-72. doi: 10.1364/AO.54.010068.

Abstract

We present a novel approach to the design and manufacture of optrodes for use in the biomedical research field of optogenetic neural interfacing. Using recently developed optical fiber drawing techniques that involve co-drawing metal/polymer composite fiber, we have assembled and characterized a novel optrode with promising optical and electrical functionality. The fabrication technique is flexible, scalable, and amenable to extension to implantable optrodes with high-density arrays of multiple electrodes, waveguides, and drug delivery channels.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Equipment Design
  • Functional Neuroimaging / instrumentation*
  • Nerve Net / physiology
  • Optical Fibers
  • Optical Phenomena
  • Optogenetics / instrumentation*