Equity Incentive Plan (Details)	1 Months Ended	3 Months Ended
Jan. 31, 2011	Sep. 30, 2013
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Authorized shares available for future issuance under all equity incentive plans		1,671,649
2006 Equity Incentive Plan [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Increased additional shares authorized for future issuance	2,000,000
Increase in number of shares of common stock reserved for issuance under the 2006 Plan		3.00%
Minimum percentage of shares owned by employee for ISO		10.00%
Stock options granted term		10 years
Stock options / restricted stock awards, vesting period		4 years
Stock options vesting rights		25% at the end of one year and one sixteenth per quarter thereafter
Percentage of options vested at the end of one year		25.00%
Percentage of options vested at the end of each quarter		6.25%
Maximum [Member] \| 2006 Equity Incentive Plan [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Percentage of fair market value		110.00%
Minimum [Member] \| 2006 Equity Incentive Plan [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Percentage of fair market value		100.00%

Minimum limit of fair market value of ISO grants to employee shareholder.

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Share based compensation arrangement by share based payment award plan modification incremental shares outstanding.

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Share Based Compensation Arrangement By Share Based Payment Percentage of Options Vested At the End of Each Quarter

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Share Based Compensation Arrangement By Share Based Payment Percentage of Options Vested At the End of One Year

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Period which an employee's right to exercise an award is no longer contingent on satisfaction of either a service condition, market condition or a performance condition, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

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-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 718

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Description of award terms as to how many shares or portion of an award are no longer contingent on satisfaction of either a service condition, market condition or a performance condition, thereby giving the employee the legal right to convert the award to shares, to sell the shares, and be entitled to the cash proceeds of such sale. For example, vesting may be expressed as being 25 percent of the shares under option on each anniversary of the grant date.

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Period from grant date that an equity-based award expires, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Number of additional shares authorized for issuance under an established share-based compensation plan.

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The difference between the maximum number of shares (or other type of equity) authorized for issuance under the plan (including the effects of amendments and adjustments), and the sum of: 1) the number of shares (or other type of equity) already issued upon exercise of options or other equity-based awards under the plan; and 2) shares (or other type of equity) reserved for issuance on granting of outstanding awards, net of cancellations and forfeitures, if applicable.

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Purchase price of common stock expressed as a percentage of its fair value.

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