title: Rejection of capillary wall background light in an on-column confocal fluorescence detector.
abstract: Minimization of the background arising from the capillary wall is of extreme importance in laser induced fluorescence on-column detection for capillary electrophoresis. A sensitive confocal fluorescence detection scheme is described. The intense capillary wall background light was effectively rejected by an adjustable precision slit in a confocal configuration. Rhodamine 640 was used as a standard fluorophore. Detection linearity was demonstrated over four orders of magnitude of concentration and the concentration detection limit was 3.38 x 10(-11) M.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Deng