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 …

From whispering gallery mode resonators to biochemical sensors

M Loyez, M Adolphson, J Liao, L Yang - ACS sensors, 2023 - ACS Publications
Optical biosensors are frontrunners for the rapid and real-time detection of analytes,
particularly for low concentrations. Among them, whispering gallery mode (WGM) resonators …

Ultra-high-Q free-space coupling to microtoroid resonators

S Suebka, E McLeod, J Su - Light: Science & Applications, 2024 - nature.com
Whispering gallery mode (WGM) microtoroid resonators are one of the most sensitive
biochemical sensors in existence, capable of detecting single molecules. The main barrier …

Optical bio-chemical sensors based on whispering gallery mode resonators

Y Zhang, T Zhou, B Han, A Zhang, Y Zhao - Nanoscale, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Whispering gallery mode (WGM) resonators have attracted extensive attention and their
unique characteristics have led to some remarkable achievements. In particular, when …

Optical whispering-gallery-mode microbubble sensors

X Zhao, Z Guo, Y Zhou, J Guo, Z Liu, Y Li, M Luo, X Wu - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) microbubble resonators are ideal optical sensors due to
their high quality factor, small mode volume, high optical energy density, and …

Label-free bound-states-in-the-continuum biosensors

M Luo, Y Zhou, X Zhao, Y Li, Z Guo, X Yang, M Zhang… - Biosensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Bound states in the continuum (BICs) have attracted considerable attentions for biological
and chemical sensing due to their infinite quality (Q)-factors in theory. Such high-Q devices …

Recent progress of in-fiber WGM microsphere resonator

Y Yang, Z Wang, X Zhang, Q Zhang, T Wang - Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2023 - Springer
In-fiber whispering gallery mode (WGM) microsphere resonators have received remarkable
attention due to the superiorities of compact structure, high stability and self-alignment. As …

Fano resonance in whispering gallery mode microcavities and its sensing applications

L Cai, S Li, F Xiang, J Liu, Q Liu - Optics & Laser Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
With the advantages of high quality factor (Q) and small mode volume, whispering gallery
mode (WGM) microcavities obtain lower detection limits and have been increasingly applied …

Three-dimensional microtubular devices for lab-on-a-chip sensing applications

J Wang, D Karnaushenko, M Medina-Sánchez… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The rapid advance of micro-/nanofabrication technologies opens up new opportunities for
miniaturized sensing devices based on novel three-dimensional (3D) architectures. Notably …

Enhanced Temperature Sensing by Multi‐Mode Coupling in an On‐Chip Microcavity System

X Wang, T Yuan, J Wu, Y Chen… - Laser & Photonics …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The microcavity is a promising sensor platform, but any perturbation will disturb its linewidth,
cause resonance shift or splitting. However, such sensing resolution is limited by the cavity's …