Silicon photonic biosensors using label-free detection

E Luan, H Shoman, DM Ratner, KC Cheung… - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
Thanks to advanced semiconductor microfabrication technology, chip-scale integration and
miniaturization of lab-on-a-chip components, silicon-based optical biosensors have made …

Optical waveguide refractive index sensor for biochemical sensing

C Peng, C Yang, H Zhao, L Liang, C Zheng, C Chen… - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
This study describes the basic principles of optical waveguide refractive index sensing and
the various design structures of refractive index sensors. These waveguides generate …

Ultrasensitive temperature sensor with Vernier-effect improved fiber Michelson interferometer

Y Zhao, M Dai, Z Chen, X Liu, MSA Gandhi, Q Li… - Optics express, 2021 - opg.optica.org
A novel fiber Michelson interferometer (FMI) based on parallel dual polarization maintaining
fiber Sagnac interferometers (PMF-SIs) is proposed and experimentally demonstrated for …

Sensitivity-enhanced temperature sensor with cascaded fiber optic Sagnac interferometers based on Vernier-effect

LY Shao, Y Luo, Z Zhang, X Zou, B Luo, W Pan… - Optics …, 2015 - Elsevier
A novel fiber optic temperature sensor has been proposed and experimentally demonstrated
with~ 9 times sensitivity enhancement by using two cascaded Sagnac interferometers …

Ultrasensitive strain sensor based on Vernier-effect improved parallel structured fiber-optic Fabry-Perot interferometer

T Nan, B Liu, Y Wu, J Wang, Y Mao, L Zhao, T Sun… - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
A novel parallel structured fiber-optic Fabry-Perot interferometer (FPI) based on Vernier-
effect is theoretically proposed and experimentally demonstrated for ultrasensitive strain …

On-chip optical gas sensors based on group-IV materials

J Wu, G Yue, W Chen, Z Xing, J Wang, WR Wong… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Compact and smart optical gas sensors have attracted significant attention over the past few
decades. Among the materials used for developing such gas sensors, group-IV materials …

Sensitivity-enhanced temperature sensor by hybrid cascaded configuration of a Sagnac loop and a FP cavity

Y Yang, Y Wang, Y Zhao, J Jiang, X He, W Yang… - Optics …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
A hybrid cascaded configuration consisting of a fiber Sagnac interferometer (FSI) and a
Fabry-Perot interferometer (FPI) was proposed and experimentally demonstrated to …

Towards next-generation label-free biosensors: recent advances in whispering gallery mode sensors

E Kim, MD Baaske, F Vollmer - Lab on a Chip, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Whispering gallery mode biosensors have been widely exploited over the past decade to
study molecular interactions by virtue of their high sensitivity and applicability in real-time …

Ultra-sensitive strain sensor based on femtosecond laser inscribed in-fiber reflection mirrors and Vernier effect

J Deng, DN Wang - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2019 - opg.optica.org
One of the efficient techniques to enhance the sensitivity of optical fiber sensor is to utilize
Vernier effect. However, the complex system structure, precisely controlled device …

Microfluidic whispering gallery mode optical sensors for biological applications

Y Wang, S Zeng, G Humbert… - Laser & Photonics …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Whispering gallery mode (WGM) resonators have been exploited as a highly sensitive and
efficient sensing technique in the past few years. They offer the advantages of ultrahigh …