Whispering gallery modes (WGMs) have been exploited for a broad range of sensing
applications. However, the vast majority of WGM sensors consist of passive resonators …

In recent years, huge progress has been made in the development of rare-earth ion doped
tellurite glass laser sources, ranging from watt-and multiwatt-level fiber lasers to nanowatt …

Morphing refers to the smooth transition from a specific shape into another one, in which the
initial and final shapes can be significantly different. A typical illustration is to turn a cube into …

A Nd^ 3+-doped tellurite-glass terrace microsphere was fabricated, and its laser
characteristics using free-space pumping were investigated. A localized laser heating …

Preparation and application of glass spheres as resonators are discussed. Surface‐tension
mold (StM) and localized‐laser heating (LLH) techniques have been developed to fabricate …

New spherical resonators with internal defects are introduced to show anomalous
whispering gallery modes (WGMs). The defect induces a symmetry breaking spherical cavity …

Inorganic glass materials have been widely used for optic and photonic applications not only
due to their excellent optical properties, such as a wide optical window, various refractive …

Non-traditional whispering gallery modes are studied in a glass microsphere. Geometrical
ray tracing is used to explain and calculate these modes. Thermal emission and Raman …

Tellurite glass microspheres having whispering gallery modes (WGMs) were fabricated on a
substrate by using a localized-laser heating technique, and nano-or micro-structures were …

The fundamental properties of glass microspherical whisperinggallery mode resonators
(WGMRs) and their applications to sensing, frequency conversion, and hybrid optical …