Optical refractive index sensors with plasmonic and photonic structures: promising and inconvenient truth

Y Xu, P Bai, X Zhou, Y Akimov, CE Png… - Advanced Optical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Optical sensors are widely used for refractive index measurement in chemical, biomedical,
and food processing industries. Due to specific field distribution of the resonances, optical …

Dielectric microcavities: Model systems for wave chaos and non-Hermitian physics

H Cao, J Wiersig - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2015 - APS
This is a review on theoretical and experimental studies on dielectric microcavities, which
play a significant role in fundamental and applied research. The basic concepts and theories …

High- Supercavity Modes in Subwavelength Dielectric Resonators

MV Rybin, KL Koshelev, ZF Sadrieva, KB Samusev… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
Recent progress in nanoscale optical physics is associated with the development of a new
branch of nanophotonics exploring strong Mie resonances in dielectric nanoparticles with a …

Whispering gallery mode sensors

MR Foreman, JD Swaim, F Vollmer - Advances in optics and …, 2015 - opg.optica.org
We present a comprehensive overview of sensor technology exploiting optical whispering
gallery mode (WGM) resonances. After a short introduction we begin by detailing the …

Photonic nanojets and their applications

A Darafsheh - Journal of Physics: Photonics, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Dielectric microelements with circular symmetry have shown interesting optical properties:
photonic nanojets (PNJs) and whispering gallery modes (WGMs). They can confine light …

Advances and prospects for whispering gallery mode microcavities

S Yang, Y Wang, H Sun - Advanced Optical Materials, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Microlasers have experienced tremendous development in the past decade and become an
essential part in laser evolution, as miniature lasers provide strong optical confinement and …

Nonreciprocal optomechanical entanglement against backscattering losses

YF Jiao, SD Zhang, YL Zhang, A Miranowicz… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
We propose how to achieve nonreciprocal quantum entanglement of light and motion and
reveal its counterintuitive robustness against random losses. We find that by splitting the …

Recent advancements in optical fiber hydrogen sensors

Y Zhang, H Peng, X Qian, Y Zhang, G An… - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2017 - Elsevier
A review for optical fiber hydrogen sensors based on palladium (Pd) and tungsten oxide
(WO 3) thin films is presented, with specific focus on the measurement methods, probe …

Ultralow‐threshold and high‐quality whispering‐gallery‐mode lasing from colloidal core/hybrid‐shell quantum wells

R Duan, Z Zhang, L Xiao, X Zhao, YT Thung… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The realization of efficient on‐chip microlasers with scalable fabrication, ultralow threshold,
and stable single‐frequency operation is always desired for a wide range of miniaturized …

Nonreciprocal phonon laser

Y Jiang, S Maayani, T Carmon, F Nori, H Jing - Physical Review Applied, 2018 - APS
We propose nonreciprocal phonon lasing in a coupled cavity system composed of an
optomechanical resonator and a spinning resonator. We show that the optical Sagnac effect …