Most volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are toxic, carcinogenic, and mutagenic, and can
have serious effects on human health and the ecological environment. Therefore, the …

Flexibility in engineering holey structures and controlling the wave guiding properties in
photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) has enabled a wide variety of PCF-based plasmonic …

Bacterial biofilms are among the oldest and most prevalent multicellular life forms on Earth
and are increasingly relevant in research areas related to industrial fouling, medicine and …

The flexibile nature of optical fiber enables it to offer remote-access capabilities, which could
be used in many biomedical applications. This review focuses on different micro-and nano …

Evanescent wave absorption (EWA) based fiber-optic sensors have found widespread
applications ranging from environmental sensing to biosensing. In these sensors, optical …

Abstract Lab-in-a-Fiber (LIF), a counterpart of Lab-on-a-chip, however, deployed within the
cylindrical optical fiber geometry, emerges as a promising approach into the development of …

Abstract Development of reliable, sensitive, selective, and miniaturized sensing
technologies is critical for health assessment and early diagnosis and treatment of …

We demonstrate the mid-infrared absorption spectroscopy with a chalcogenide glass IG3
hollow-core antiresonant fiber (HC-ARF) for gas sensing at 10.5 µm. A continuous-wave …

The prevalence of hospital acquired infections and antibiotic resistant pathogens
necessitates the development of bacteria sensing systems that do not require sample …

The present paper demonstrates an antibody-free, robust, fast, and portable platform for
detection of leukemia cells using Raman spectroscopy with a 785-nm laser diode coupled to …