Optical biosensors: An exhaustive and comprehensive review

C Chen, J Wang - Analyst, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Optical biosensors have exhibited worthwhile performance in detecting biological systems
and promoting significant advances in clinical diagnostics, drug discovery, food process …

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 …

Review Label-free detection with high-Q microcavities: a review of biosensing mechanisms for integrated devices

F Vollmer, L Yang - Nanophotonics, 2012 - degruyter.com
Optical microcavities that confine light in high-Q resonance promise all of the capabilities
required for a successful next-generation microsystem biodetection technology. Label-free …

Performance enhancement of on-chip optical switch and memory using Ge2Sb2Te5 slot-assisted microring resonator

L Cai, Y Lu, H Zhu - Optics and Lasers in Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Phase change material Ge 2 Sb 2 Te 5 (GST) has recently emerged as a highly
promising candidate for reconfigurable photonic devices owing to its non-volatility, high …

High-Q Optical Sensors for Chemical and Biological Analysis

MS Luchansky, RC Bailey - Analytical chemistry, 2012 - ACS Publications
Optical sensors represent a vitally important class of analytical tools that have been used to
provide chemical information ranging from analyte concentration and binding kinetics to …

Silicon photonic devices realized on refractive index engineered subwavelength grating waveguides-A review

NL Kazanskiy, MA Butt, SN Khonina - Optics & Laser Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
It is a remarkable and straightforward approach to customize the dispersion and nonlinear
properties of the photonic devices without varying the composition of the material by …

A marriage of convenience: Hybridization of surface plasmon and dielectric waveguide modes

MZ Alam, JS Aitchison… - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Plasmonics has attracted a lot of interest in the past few years because of its unique
features, especially for its ability to confine light in extremely small volumes. However …

Overview of optical biosensors for early cancer detection: fundamentals, applications and future perspectives

MY Azab, MFO Hameed, SSA Obayya - Biology, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Due to the increase in cancer incidence worldwide, a necessity for early
cancer detection arises. Since the conventional detection and treatment techniques are …

Hybrid plasmonic waveguide-assisted Metal–Insulator–Metal ring resonator for refractive index sensing

MA Butt, SN Khonina, NL Kazanskiy - Journal of Modern Optics, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
A highly sensitive refractive index sensor based on an integrated hybrid plasmonic
waveguide (HPWG) and a Metal–Insulator–Metal (M–I–M) micro-ring resonator is presented …

High performance SOI microring resonator for biochemical sensing

C Ciminelli, F Dell'Olio, D Conteduca… - Optics & laser …, 2014 - Elsevier
In this work we have investigated different silicon-on-insulator (SOI) microcavities based on
a planar geometry having a footprint on chip as small as 100 μm 2 with a ring, disk and …