Whispering-gallery sensors

X Jiang, AJ Qavi, SH Huang, L Yang - Matter, 2020 - cell.com
Optical whispering-gallery mode (WGM) microresonators, confining resonant photons in a
microscale volume for long periods of time, strongly enhance light-matter interactions …

Sensitive optical biosensors for unlabeled targets: A review

X Fan, IM White, SI Shopova, H Zhu, JD Suter… - analytica chimica acta, 2008 - Elsevier
This article reviews the recent progress in optical biosensors that use the label-free
detection protocol, in which biomolecules are unlabeled or unmodified, and are detected in …

On the performance quantification of resonant refractive index sensors

IM White, X Fan - Optics express, 2008 - opg.optica.org
Refractive index (RI) sensors based on optical resonance techniques are receiving a high
degree of attention because of the need to develop simple, low-cost, high-throughput …

Optothermal dynamics in whispering-gallery microresonators

X Jiang, L Yang - Light: Science & Applications, 2020 - nature.com
Optical whispering-gallery-mode microresonators with ultrahigh quality factors and small
mode volumes have played an important role in modern physics. They have been …

High-Q Optical Sensors for Chemical and Biological Analysis

MS Luchansky, RC Bailey - Analytical chemistry, 2012 - ACS Publications
Optical sensors represent a vitally important class of analytical tools that have been used to
provide chemical information ranging from analyte concentration and binding kinetics to …

Fabrication of high-Q polydimethylsiloxane optical microspheres for thermal sensing

CH Dong, L He, YF Xiao, VR Gaddam… - Applied physics …, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
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 …

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 …

An Ultrasensitive Fluorescent Paper-Based CO2 Sensor

H Wang, SI Vagin, B Rieger… - ACS applied materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We demonstrate a versatile and easily fabricated paper-based CO2 sensor. The sensor
consists of a specially designed fluorescent color-shift chromophore infused into standard …

Quasi-droplet microbubbles for high resolution sensing applications

Y Yang, J Ward, SN Chormaic - Optics express, 2014 - opg.optica.org
Optical properties and sensing capabilities of fused silica microbubbles were studied
numerically using a finite element method. Mode characteristics, such as quality factor (Q) …

Optical microcavities with tubular geometry: properties and applications

J Wang, T Zhan, G Huang, PK Chu… - Laser & photonics …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Optical microcavities with whispering‐gallery modes (WGMs) have large potential and, in
particular, those with a tubular geometry have attracted increasing attention due to their …