Prospects and applications of on-chip lasers

Z Zhou, X Ou, Y Fang, E Alkhazraji, R Xu, Y Wan… - Elight, 2023 - Springer
Integrated silicon photonics has sparked a significant ramp-up of investment in both
academia and industry as a scalable, power-efficient, and eco-friendly solution. At the heart …

A progress review on solid‐state LiDAR and nanophotonics‐based LiDAR sensors

N Li, CP Ho, J Xue, LW Lim, G Chen… - Laser & Photonics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors enable precision sensing of an object in 3D.
LiDAR technology is widely used in metrology, environment monitoring, archaeology, and …

[HTML][HTML] Laser sensors for energy systems and process industries: Perspectives and directions

A Farooq, ABS Alquaity, M Raza, EF Nasir… - Progress in Energy and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Sensors are perhaps the most important and integral components of our modern society.
With global warming and environmental pollution garnering ever-increasing attention, as …

Towards integrated mid-infrared gas sensors

D Popa, F Udrea - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
Optical gas sensors play an increasingly important role in many applications. Sensing
techniques based on mid-infrared absorption spectroscopy offer excellent stability …

Extraordinary evanescent field confinement waveguide sensor for mid-infrared trace gas spectroscopy

M Vlk, A Datta, S Alberti, HD Yallew, V Mittal… - Light: Science & …, 2021 - nature.com
Nanophotonic waveguides are at the core of a great variety of optical sensors. These
structures confine light along defined paths on photonic chips and provide light–matter …

A review of methane gas detection sensors: Recent developments and future perspectives

T Aldhafeeri, MK Tran, R Vrolyk, M Pope, M Fowler - Inventions, 2020 - mdpi.com
Methane, the primary component of natural gas, is a significant contributor to global warming
and climate change. It is a harmful greenhouse gas with an impact 28 times greater than …

Recent progress in the energy harvesting technology—from self-powered sensors to self-sustained IoT, and new applications

L Liu, X Guo, W Liu, C Lee - Nanomaterials, 2021 - mdpi.com
With the fast development of energy harvesting technology, micro-nano or scale-up energy
harvesters have been proposed to allow sensors or internet of things (IoT) applications with …

Larger-than-unity external optical field confinement enabled by metamaterial-assisted comb waveguide for ultrasensitive long-wave infrared gas spectroscopy

W Liu, Y Ma, X Liu, J Zhou, C Xu, B Dong, C Lee - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nanophotonic waveguides that implement long optical pathlengths on chips are promising
to enable chip-scale gas sensors. Nevertheless, current absorption-based waveguide …

Miniaturized anti-interference cantilever-enhanced fiber-optic photoacoustic methane sensor

M Guo, K Chen, B Yang, G Zhang, X Zhao… - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2022 - Elsevier
To realize all-optical passive detection of CH 4 in narrow spaces and harsh environments, a
compact cantilever-enhanced fiber-optic photoacoustic sensor (CEFPS) resistant to …

Emerging wearable chemical sensors enabling advanced integrated systems toward personalized and preventive medicine

T He, F Wen, Y Yang, X Le, W Liu, C Lee - Analytical Chemistry, 2023 - ACS Publications
With the rise of silicon-based semiconductor technology in the 1950s, people's lives have
been dramatically transformed by the information technology industry. 1 For instance …