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 …

Photonic crystal sensors: An overview

RV Nair, R Vijaya - Progress in Quantum Electronics, 2010 - Elsevier
Photonic crystals have achieved a lot of research significance due to their projected
applications. Their use as sensors is enabled due to their well-defined physical properties …

Optimization of photonic crystal nanocavities based on deep learning

T Asano, S Noda - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
An approach to optimizing the Q factors of two-dimensional photonic crystal (2D-PC)
nanocavities based on deep learning is hereby proposed and demonstrated. We prepare a …

Ultrasensitive surface refractive index imaging based on quasi-bound states in the continuum

S Romano, M Mangini, E Penzo, S Cabrini… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Herein, we demonstrate a cavity-enhanced hyperspectral refractometric imaging using an all-
dielectric photonic crystal slab (PhCS). Our approach takes advantage of the synergy …

Theoretical study of hybrid multifunctional one-dimensional photonic crystal as a flexible blood sugar sensor

AH Aly, ZA Zaky, AS Shalaby, AM Ahmed… - Physica …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Photonic sensing is a novel technology and accurate measurement for biosensing
applications. The present work proposes a defective one-dimensional photonic crystal (1D …

Photonic crystal nanocavity with a Q factor exceeding eleven million

T Asano, Y Ochi, Y Takahashi, K Kishimoto, S Noda - Optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Photonic crystal nanocavities that simultaneously possess small modal volumes and high
quality (Q) factors have opened up novel research areas in photonics during this decade …

Strong enhancement of light–matter interaction in graphene coupled to a photonic crystal nanocavity

X Gan, KF Mak, Y Gao, Y You, F Hatami, J Hone… - Nano …, 2012 - ACS Publications
We demonstrate a large enhancement in the interaction of light with graphene through
coupling with localized modes in a photonic crystal nanocavity. Spectroscopic studies show …

Design of a label-free photonic crystal refractive index sensor for biomedical applications

M Danaie, B Kiani - Photonics and nanostructures-fundamentals and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Two photonic crystal optical refractive index sensors have been proposed in this paper.
These sensors can be used for detection of basal cell cancer. A rod-type square lattice of …

Record performance of electrical injection sub-wavelength metallic-cavity semiconductor lasers at room temperature

K Ding, MT Hill, ZC Liu, LJ Yin, PJ Van Veldhoven… - Optics express, 2013 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a continuous wave (CW) sub-wavelength metallic-cavity semiconductor
laser with electrical injection at room temperature (RT). Our metal-cavity laser with a cavity …

Recent progress in nanolaser technology

KY Jeong, MS Hwang, J Kim, JS Park… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Nanolasers are key elements in the implementation of optical integrated circuits owing to
their low lasing thresholds, high energy efficiencies, and high modulation speeds. With the …