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4-4 Conclusions
Optofluidic optical components (OOCs) are promising candidates to
serve as building blocks in future on chip integrated optofluidic sys-
tems. By considering their ease of design and fabrication, side by side
with their great flexibility it is reasonable to predict that such compo-
nents will play a major role in future optofluidic systems. In addition,
the capability to deliver both analytes and optical signals in the same
structure makes the OOCs promising for on chip biosensing applica-
tions. Finally, the OOCs offer very large tunabilty, both in geometry
and in refractive index. The refractive index tuning range can be as
high as ~1, orders of magnitude larger than the tunability that can be
achieved by other approaches. Therefore, OOCs may become useful in
application requiring tunablity and adaptation of optical components.

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