Detection of nanoscale objects is highly desirable in various fields such as early‐stage
disease diagnosis, environmental monitoring and homeland security. Optical microcavity …

Whispering gallery mode resonators (WGMRs) have achieved significant results due to their
unique properties such as extremely small mode volume, ultra‐high quality (Q) factor, fast …

Confinement of light into small volumes has become an essential requirement for photonic
devices; examples of this trend are provided by optical fibers, integrated optical circuits …

Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) optical microspheres are fabricated and whispering gallery
modes with quality factors of 10 6 in the 1480 nm band are demonstrated. The dependence …

We carry out simulations based on a four-layer Mie model to systematically analyze the
sensing performance of ring resonator chemical vapor sensors. Two sensor configurations …

We present a refractometric sensor based on quantum dot-embedded polystyrene
microspheres. Optical resonances within a microsphere, known as whispering-gallery …

We study the oscillatory thermal dynamics of a high-Q PDMS-coated silica microtoroid both
experimentally and theoretically. We demonstrate that the competing thermo-optic effects in …

Medicine, environmental monitoring, and security are application areas for miniaturized,
portable sensing systems. The emerging integration of sensors with other components …

Brillouin microlasers based on microresonators with whispering gallery modes (WGMs) are
in high demand for different applications including sensing and biosensing. We fabricated a …

In recent years, many temperature sensing devices based on microsphere resonators have
emerged, attracting an increasing research interest. For the purpose of this review article …