Optical whispering-gallery mode (WGM) microresonators, confining resonant photons in a
microscale volume for long periods of time, strongly enhance light-matter interactions …

Nanophotonic device building blocks, such as optical nano/microcavities and plasmonic
nanostructures, lie at the forefront of sensing and spectrometry of trace biological and …

Optofluidics, nominally the research area where optics and fluidics merge, is a relatively new
research field and it is only in the last decade that there has been a large increase in the …

We study optomechanically induced transparency (OMIT) in a compound system consisting
of coupled optical resonators and a mechanical mode, focusing on the unconventional role …

Frequency combs (FCs)—spectra containing equidistant coherent peaks—have enabled
researchers and engineers to measure the frequencies of complex signals with high …

We describe a system for interrogating the acoustic properties of sub-nanoliter liquid
samples within an open microfluidics platform. Sessile droplets were deposited onto …

We experimentally demonstrate the high sensitivity of a novel liquid state, whispering-gallery-
mode optical resonator to humidity changes. The optical resonator used consists of a droplet …

Optomechanical systems couple an electromagnetic cavity to a mechanical resonator which
typically is a solid object. The range of phenomena accessible in these systems depends on …

We describe a proposal for a type of optomechanical system based on a drop of liquid
helium that is magnetically levitated in vacuum. In the proposed device, the drop would …

Nonlinear optical processes are vital for fields including telecommunications, signal
processing, data storage, spectroscopy, sensing and imaging. As an independent research …