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Sahoo N, Sun B, Tan Y, Zhou K, Zhang L. A Novel Biosensor for the Detection of Glucose Concentration Using the Dual-Peak Long Period Grating in the Near- to Mid-Infrared. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2024; 24:1247. [PMID: 38400404 PMCID: PMC10892875 DOI: 10.3390/s24041247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2023] [Revised: 02/02/2024] [Accepted: 02/09/2024] [Indexed: 02/25/2024]
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In this article, we demonstrate an improved efficient fibre sensor with a high sensitivity to measure glucose concentrations in the physiological range of human beings, operating in a broad spectral bandwidth from the near- to mid-infrared. The sensor consists of a dual-peak long period grating (DPLPG) with a period of 150 μm inscribed in an optical fibre with a diameter of 80 μm. The investigation of sensing for refractive index results in a sensitivity of ~-885.7 nm/refractive index unit (RIU) and ~2008.6 nm/RIU in the range of 1.30-1.44. The glucose measurement is achieved by the immobilisation of a layer of enzyme of glucose oxidase (GOD) onto the fibre surface for the selective enhancement of sensitivity for glucose. The sensor can measure glucose concentrations with a maximum sensitivity of -36.25 nm/(mg/mL) in the range of 0.1-3.0 mg/mL. To the best of our knowledge, this is the highest sensitivity ever achieved for a measurement of glucose with a long period grating-based sensor, indicating its potential for many applications including pharmaceutical, biomedical and food industries.
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- Namita Sahoo
- Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies, Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK; (K.Z.); (L.Z.)
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- College of Electronic and Optical Engineering, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210003, China;
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- Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China;
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- Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies, Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK; (K.Z.); (L.Z.)
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- Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies, Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK; (K.Z.); (L.Z.)
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Xu GT, Zhang M, Wang ZY, Wang Y, Liu YX, Shen Z, Guo GC, Dong CH. Ringing spectroscopy in the magnomechanical system. FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH 2023; 3:45-49. [PMID: 38933572 PMCID: PMC11197529 DOI: 10.1016/j.fmre.2022.09.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2022] [Revised: 08/29/2022] [Accepted: 09/18/2022] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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The ringing phenomenon has been studied in optical whispering gallery mode (WGM) resonators and can be used to sense the ultrafast process in spectroscopy. Here we observe the ringing phenomenon in a magnomechanical system for the first time, which is induced by the interference between the microwave photons converted from the damped phonons and the probing microwave photons. This interference eventually appears as a transparency window even along with the ringing phenomenon in the measured microwave reflection spectrum, which is influenced by the scanning speed and the input power. Then, the ringing spectroscopy is used to measure the coupling strength between the magnon and phonon modes, and outline the displacement profile of S 1 , 2 , 2 mechanical mode in a YIG microsphere, demonstrating the theoretical analysis. In addition, the ring-up spectroscopy is developed in our magnomechanical system, laying the foundation for fast sensing based on mechanical motion.
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- Guan-Ting Xu
- Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
- CAS Center for Excellence in Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
- CAS Center for Excellence in Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
- CAS Center for Excellence in Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
- CAS Center for Excellence in Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Institute of Microelectronics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
- CAS Center for Excellence in Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
- CAS Center for Excellence in Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
- Hefei National Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230088, China
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- Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
- CAS Center for Excellence in Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
- Hefei National Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230088, China
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Rong J, Chi H, Jia T, Li J, Xing T, Yue J, Xing E, Sun F, Tang J, Liu J. Large-scale flexible-resonators with temperature insensitivity employing superoleophobic substrates. OPTICS EXPRESS 2022; 30:40897-40905. [PMID: 36299014 DOI: 10.1364/oe.471275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2022] [Accepted: 10/10/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Whispering gallery mode polymer resonators are becoming competitive with devices made of other materials, however, the inherent thermal sensitivity of the materials and the small size limit their applications, such as high-precision optical gyroscope. Here, a method is proposed for fabricating large-scale NOA65 resonators with quality factors greater than 105 on a chip employing superoleophobic. The sandwich structure as the core layer of resonator is used to present the flexible remodeling characteristics, the surface roughness remains below 1 nm when the diameter changes by more than 25%. Importantly, theoretical and experimental results show that under the tuning action of external pressure, the equivalent thermal expansion coefficient of the resonator gradually approaches the glass sheet on both sides with the variation of 2 × 10-4 /°C∼0.9 × 10-4 /°C, and the corresponding temperature response range of 0.12 nm/°C∼-0.056 nm/°C shows the promise of temperature insensitivity resonators on a chip.
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Giorgini A, Avino S, Malara P, De Natale P, Gagliardi G. Liquid Droplet Microresonators. SENSORS 2019; 19:s19030473. [PMID: 30682798 PMCID: PMC6387022 DOI: 10.3390/s19030473] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2018] [Revised: 01/17/2019] [Accepted: 01/18/2019] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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We provide here an overview of passive optical micro-cavities made of droplets in the liquid phase. We focus on resonators that are naturally created and suspended under gravity thanks to interfacial forces, illustrating simple ways to excite whispering-gallery modes in various slow-evaporation liquids using free-space optics. Similar to solid resonators, frequency locking of near-infrared and visible lasers to resonant modes is performed exploiting either phase-sensitive detection of the leakage cavity field or multiple interference between whispering-gallery modes in the scattered light. As opposed to conventional micro-cavity sensors, each droplet acts simultaneously as the sensor and the sample, whereby the internal light can detect dissolved compounds and particles. Optical quality factors up to 107–108 are observed in liquid-polymer droplets through photon lifetime measurements. First attempts in using single water droplets are also reported. These achievements point out their huge potential for direct spectroscopy and bio-chemical sensing in liquid environments. Finally, the first experiments of cavity optomechanics with surface acoustic waves in nanolitre droplets are presented. The possibility to perform studies of viscous-elastic properties points to a new paradigm: a droplet device as an opto-fluid-mechanics laboratory on table-top scale under controlled environmental conditions.
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- Antonio Giorgini
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto Nazionale di Ottica (INO), via Campi Flegrei 34-Comprensorio A. Olivetti, 80078 Pozzuoli (Na), Italy.
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- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto Nazionale di Ottica (INO), via Campi Flegrei 34-Comprensorio A. Olivetti, 80078 Pozzuoli (Na), Italy.
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- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto Nazionale di Ottica (INO), via Campi Flegrei 34-Comprensorio A. Olivetti, 80078 Pozzuoli (Na), Italy.
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- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto Nazionale di Ottica (INO), Largo E. Fermi 6-50125 Firenze, Italy.
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- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto Nazionale di Ottica (INO), via Campi Flegrei 34-Comprensorio A. Olivetti, 80078 Pozzuoli (Na), Italy.
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Recent development of fiber-optic chemical sensors and biosensors: Mechanisms, materials, micro/nano-fabrications and applications. Coord Chem Rev 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2018.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 133] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Liu XF, Wang TJ, Wang C. Optothermal control of gains in erbium-doped whispering-gallery microresonators. OPTICS LETTERS 2018; 43:326-329. [PMID: 29328273 DOI: 10.1364/ol.43.000326] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2017] [Accepted: 12/10/2017] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Erbium-doped whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) microcavities have great potential in many important applications, such as the precision detection and the micro/nano laser. However, they are sensitive to the fluctuations from the pump laser and the environment. Here we demonstrate the precise controlling of transmission spectra and optical gains using optothermal scanning methods in erbium-doped WGM microcavities. The transmission spectrum of the probe signal exhibits the transition between asymmetric Fano-like resonance and the Lorentz peak (or dip) through tuning the input frequency and the scanning speed of the pump laser. In particular, the analytical calculations can fit well with our experimental results through adiabatically eliminating the anticlockwise optical mode. This Letter shows that the optothermal control of gains is more robust to external noises, which paves a crucial step toward the application in the ultra-sensitive detection.
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Ringing phenomenon based measurement of weak mode-coupling strength in an optical microresonator. Sci Rep 2017; 7:17412. [PMID: 29234022 PMCID: PMC5727066 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-16961-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2017] [Accepted: 11/19/2017] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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There is always a coupling between the degenerate clockwise (CW) and counter-clockwise (CCW) modes in a whisperinggallery- mode (WGM) optical microresonator, since the surface of the microresonator can not be perfectly smooth. It is important to measure this coupling strength in many applications. When the coupling strength is strong, the conventional method by observing mode splitting in the stationary spectrum can be used to measure its value. However, when the coupling strength is weak, the conventional method will not work. We experimentally demonstrate that the ringing phenomenon can be used to measure weak coupling strength between the CW and CCW modes in a WGM optical microresonator.
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Chen Y, Zhou ZH, Zou CL, Shen Z, Guo GC, Dong CH. Tunable Raman laser in a hollow bottle-like microresonator. OPTICS EXPRESS 2017; 25:16879-16887. [PMID: 28789187 DOI: 10.1364/oe.25.016879] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2017] [Accepted: 06/30/2017] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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A tunable Raman laser in the hollow bottle-like microresonator is demonstrated. By controlling the pump laser frequency, we have demonstrated continuous Raman laser frequency tuning. We also have studied the interesting transient mode evolution with Raman gain by sweeping the pump and probe laser, and verified the thermal tuning mechanism by theoretical simulations. By mechanically stretching the resonator, we have achieved the large range frequency tuning of the Raman laser, with the tuning range of 132 GHz with the resolution about 85 MHz. The demonstrated tunable Raman laser can be used as a source for future optical applications.
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Kim E, Baaske MD, Vollmer F. Towards next-generation label-free biosensors: recent advances in whispering gallery mode sensors. LAB ON A CHIP 2017; 17:1190-1205. [PMID: 28265608 DOI: 10.1039/c6lc01595f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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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 kinetic analysis without the requirement to label. There have been immense research efforts made for advancing the instrumentation as well as the design of detection assays, with the common goal of progressing towards real-world sensing applications. We therefore review a set of recent developments made in this field and discuss the requirements that whispering gallery mode label-free sensors need to fulfill for making a real world impact outside of the laboratory. These requirements are directly related to the challenges that these sensors face, and the methods proposed to overcome them are discussed. Moving forward, we provide the future prospects and the potential impact of this technology.
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- Eugene Kim
- Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Staudtstrabe 2, 91058 Erlangen, Germany.
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- Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Staudtstrabe 2, 91058 Erlangen, Germany.
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- Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Staudtstrabe 2, 91058 Erlangen, Germany. and Living Systems Institute, School of Physics, University of Exeter, Exeter EX44QD, UK.
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Zhou ZH, Zou CL, Chen Y, Shen Z, Guo GC, Dong CH. Broadband tuning of the optical and mechanical modes in hollow bottle-like microresonators. OPTICS EXPRESS 2017; 25:4046-4053. [PMID: 28241612 DOI: 10.1364/oe.25.004046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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In this paper, we report the mechanical tuning of the optical and mechanical modes in the hollow bottle-like microresonator (BLMR). The optical modes with a quality factor of 1.55 × 108 and mechanical modes with a quality factor of 2.5 × 103 were demonstrated in such microresonators. By stretching the microresonator, the optical modes can be tuned over one free spectral range, as large as 917 GHz (~ 7.3 nm). Meanwhile, the range of frequency tuning of mechanical modes can be as large as 1 MHz, which is about 2.9% of the mode frequency. This effective approach to tune the optomechanical cavity can be used for the tunable photon-phonon conversion and the synchronization of mechanical oscillators in separated optomechanical systems.
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Fundamental limits in high-Q droplet microresonators. Sci Rep 2017; 7:41997. [PMID: 28169317 PMCID: PMC5294640 DOI: 10.1038/srep41997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2016] [Accepted: 01/03/2017] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Liquid droplet whispering-gallery-mode microresonators open a new research frontier for sensing, optomechanics and photonic devices. At visible wavelengths, where most liquids are transparent, a major contribution to a droplet optical quality factor is expected theoretically from thermal surface distortions and capillary waves. Here, we investigate experimentally these predictions using transient cavity ring-down spectroscopy. With our scheme, the optical out-coupling and intrinsic loss are measured independently while any perturbation induced by thermal, acoustic and laser-frequency noise is avoided thanks to the ultra-short light-cavity interaction time. The measurements reveal a photon lifetime at least ten times longer than the thermal limit and indicate that capillary fluctuations activate surface scattering effects responsible for light coupling. This suggests that droplet microresonators are an ideal optical platform for ultra-sensitive spectroscopy of highly transparent liquid compounds in nano-liter volumes.
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Ringing phenomenon in chaotic microcavity for high-speed ultra-sensitive sensing. Sci Rep 2016; 6:38922. [PMID: 27966591 PMCID: PMC5155219 DOI: 10.1038/srep38922] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2016] [Accepted: 11/16/2016] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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The ringing phenomenon in whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) microcavities has demonstrated its great potential for highly-sensitive and high-speed sensing. However, traditional symmetric WGM microcavities have suffered from an extremely low coupling efficiency via free-space coupling because the emission of symmetric WGMs is non-directional. Here we report a new approach for high-speed ultra-sensitive sensing using the ringing phenomenon in a chaotic regime. By breaking the rotational symmetry of a WGM microcavity and introducing chaotic behaviors, we show that the ringing phenomenon in chaotic WGM microcavities extends over both the positive and the negative frequency detune, allowing the ringing phenomenon to interact with analytes over a much broader bandwidth with a reduced dead time. Because the coupling of the chaotic microcavity is directional, it produces a significantly higher signal output, which improves its sensitivity without the need of a fiber coupler.
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Liu XF, Lei F, Gao M, Yang X, Qin GQ, Long GL. Fabrication of a microtoroidal resonator with picometer precise resonant wavelength. OPTICS LETTERS 2016; 41:3603-6. [PMID: 27472629 DOI: 10.1364/ol.41.003603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Fabricating an optical microresonator with precise resonant wavelength is of significant importance for fundamental research and practical applications. Here, we develop an effective method to fabricate ultra-high Q microtoroid with picometer-precise resonant wavelength. Our method adds a tuning reflow process, using low-power CO2 laser pulses, to the traditional fabrication process. It can tailor resonant wavelength to a red or blue direction by choosing a proper laser power. Also, this shift can be controlled by the exposure time. Meanwhile, quality factor remains nearly unchanged during this tailoring process. Our method can greatly reduce the difficulties of experiments where precise resonances are required.
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Biosensing by WGM Microspherical Resonators. SENSORS 2016; 16:s16060905. [PMID: 27322282 PMCID: PMC4934331 DOI: 10.3390/s16060905] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2016] [Revised: 06/09/2016] [Accepted: 06/10/2016] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Whispering gallery mode (WGM) microresonators, thanks to their unique properties, have allowed researchers to achieve important results in both fundamental research and engineering applications. Among the various geometries, microspheres are the simplest 3D WGM resonators; the total optical loss in such resonators can be extremely low, and the resulting extraordinarily high Q values of 108–109 lead to high energy density, narrow resonant-wavelength lines and a lengthy cavity ringdown. They can also be coated in order to better control their properties or to increase their functionality. Their very high sensitivity to changes in the surrounding medium has been exploited for several sensing applications: protein adsorption, trace gas detection, impurity detection in liquids, structural health monitoring of composite materials, detection of electric fields, pressure sensing, and so on. In the present paper, after a general introduction to WGM resonators, attention is focused on spherical microresonators, either in bulk or in bubble format, to their fabrication, characterization and functionalization. The state of the art in the area of biosensing is presented, and the perspectives of further developments are discussed.
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Liu XF, Lei F, Gao M, Yang X, Wang C, Özdemir ŞK, Yang L, Long GL. Gain competition induced mode evolution and resonance control in erbium-doped whispering-gallery microresonators. OPTICS EXPRESS 2016; 24:9550-60. [PMID: 27137568 DOI: 10.1364/oe.24.009550] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Precise control of resonance features in microcavities is of significant importance both for researches and applications. By exploiting gain provided by the doped rare earth ions or Raman gain, this can be achieved through changing the pump. Here we propose and experimentally show that by using gain competition, one can also control the evolution of resonance for the probe signal while the pump is kept unchanged. The transition of Lorentz peak, Fano-like resonance and Lorentz dip can be observed from the transmission spectra of the probe signal through tuning the auxiliary control signal. The theory based on coupled-mode theory and laser rate equations by setting the optical gains as time-dependent was constructed. This method can be used in the precise control of transmission spectra and the coupling regime between the waveguide and microcavities.
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