This review presents an overview of “Lab on Fiber” technologies and devices with special
focus on the design and development of advanced fiber optic nanoprobes for biological …

Metallic nanostructures attract much interest as an efficient media for surface‐enhanced
Raman scattering (SERS). Significant progress has been made on the synthesis of metal …

In this review, we introduce photonic crystal fibre as a novel optofluidic microdevice that can
be employed as both a versatile chemical sensor and a highly efficient microreactor. We …

Photonic crystal fibers are a kind of fiber optics that present a diversity of new and improved
features beyond what conventional optical fibers can offer. Due to their unique geometric …

Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) has demonstrated single-molecule sensitivity
and is becoming intensively investigated due to its significant potential in chemical and …

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 …

This article offers an extensive survey of results obtained using hybrid photonic-crystal fibers
(PCFs) which constitute one of the most active research fields in contemporary fiber optics …

This paper reports a bidirectional fiber optic probe for the detection of surface-enhanced
Raman scattering (SERS). One facet of the probe features an array of gold optical antennas …

We report on the design of practical surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrate
based upon 3D alumina membranes with cylindrical nanopores chemically modified with …

Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) are commonly used for detecting cancer
proteins at concentration in the range of about ng-μg/mL. Hence it often fails to detect tumor …