A measurement system for the detection of a low concentration of nanoparticles based on optical microcavities with whispering-gallery modes (WGMs) is developed and investigated. A novel method based on the WGM broadening allows us to increase the pre...
We propose a method for the excitation and controllable tuning of Fano-like resonance based on whispering gallery mode (WGM) microcavities and microfiber modal interferometers (MMIs). By the interaction of the discrete comb-like resonant modes excite...
We report on a novel optical microcavity sensing scheme by using the orthogonal demodulation Pound–Drever–Hall (PDH) technique. We found that larger sensitivity in a broad range of cavity quality factor (Q) could be obtained. Taking micro...
In this work, we present a novel approach for obtaining the effective mass of mechanical vibration mode in micro-bubble resonators (MBRs). To be specific, the effective mass is deduced from the measurement of optical spring effect (OSE) in MBRs. This...
Whispering gallery mode micro-bubble optical cavities are asymmetrical ellipsoids in experimental settings, which makes their modes nondegenerate. A complicated dense spectrum is thus generated. Overlapping and coupled resonances exist in this dense...
Whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) microcavities, with their ultra-high quality factors and deeply confined mode volumes, provide strong light–matter interaction and underpin a broad range of emerging photonic technologies. Their capabilities now sp...
In this work, the thermo-optic effect in polymers was used to realize a temperature-tunable whispering-gallery-mode laser. The laser was fabricated using a capillary tube filled with a light-emitting conjugated polymer solution via the capillary effe...
Liquid droplet and quasi-droplet whispering gallery mode (WGM) microcavities have been widely studied recently for the enhanced spatial overlap between the liquid and WGM field, especially in sensing applications. However, the fragile cavity structur...
Liquid crystals (LCs) have been widely used as sensitive elements to construct LC biosensors based on the principle that specific bonding events between biomolecules can affect the orientation of LC molecules. On the basis of the sensing interface of...
Optical microcavities are known for their strongly enhanced light–matter interactions. Whispering gallery mode (WGM) microresonators have important applications in nonlinear optics, single-mode output, and biosensing. However, there are few stu...
Tunable whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) lasers have been paid lots of attention for their potential applications in the photonic field. Here, a tunable polymer WGM laser based on laser diode pumping is realized with a threshold of 0.43 MW/cm2 per pulse...
A method for achieving the single-mode and efficient unidirectional emission of a whispering gallery mode (WGM) semiconductor laser is presented herein. Hybrid square-rectangular lasers (HSRLs) and hybrid square/rhombus-rectangular lasers (HSRRLs) co...
Quantitative detection of cardiac troponin biomarkers in blood is an important method for clinical diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). In this work, a whispering gallery mode (WGM) microcavity immunosensor based on a prefab hollow glass m...
Using a fiber of that is 125 μm in diameter in rhodamine 6G ethanol solution, controllable multi- and single-whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) optofluidic lasers based on evanescent-wave-coupled gain are both available. With multi-mode WGM emission, lasi...
Current bacterial detection techniques are relatively slow, require bulky instrumentation, and usually require some form of specialized training. The gold standard for bacterial detection is culture testing, which can take several days to receive a v...
Microlasers hold great promise for the development of photonics and optoelectronics. At present, tunable microcavity lasers, especially regarding in situ dynamic tuning, are still the focus of research. In this study, we combined a 0.7Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O...
We demonstrate a mechanism-oriented Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) platform based on a hybrid structure integrating monolayer molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) and gold nanospheres (AuNSs) on an optical microfiber (MF). The microfiber serves as a...
Sensing applications based on whispering gallery mode (WGM) microcavities have attracted extensive attention recently, especially in displacement sensing applications. However, the traditional displacement sensing scheme based on shift in a single re...
Hollow core microbubble structures are good candidates for the construction of high performance whispering gallery microresonator and Fabry-Perot (FP) interference devices. In the previous reports, most of interest was just focused on the dual-ended...
The investigation of optical microcavity solitons is in demand both for applications and basic science. Despite the tremendous progress in the study of microresonator solitons, there is still no complete understanding of all features of their nonline...
Whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) microresonators are amongst the most promising optical sensors for detecting bio-chemical targets. A number of laser interrogation methods have been proposed and demonstrated over the last decade, based on scattering and...
We present a Fourier-transform (FT)-based framework for quantitative analysis of whispering gallery mode (WGM) spectra in soft photonic microcavities. By treating the WGM spectrum as a quasi-periodic signal, the method enables robust extraction of th...
In this paper, a novel technique using an ultra-sensitive optical resonator based on whispering gallery modes (WGM) is proposed to detect the diffusion of organic solvents. The sensor configuration is a micro-cavity made of polymeric material. When t...