Optical refractive index sensors with plasmonic and photonic structures: promising and inconvenient truth

Y Xu, P Bai, X Zhou, Y Akimov, CE Png… - Advanced Optical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Optical sensors are widely used for refractive index measurement in chemical, biomedical,
and food processing industries. Due to specific field distribution of the resonances, optical …

Aluminum nitride photonic integrated circuits: from piezo-optomechanics to nonlinear optics

X Liu, AW Bruch, HX Tang - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The commercial success of radio-frequency acoustic filters in wireless communication
systems has launched aluminum nitride (AlN) as one of the most widely used …

[HTML][HTML] Roadmap on photonic metasurfaces

SA Schulz, R Oulton, M Kenney, A Alù, I Staude… - Applied Physics …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Here we present a roadmap on Photonic metasurfaces. This document consists of a number
of perspective articles on different applications, challenge areas or technologies underlying …

Review Label-free detection with high-Q microcavities: a review of biosensing mechanisms for integrated devices

F Vollmer, L Yang - Nanophotonics, 2012 - degruyter.com
Optical microcavities that confine light in high-Q resonance promise all of the capabilities
required for a successful next-generation microsystem biodetection technology. Label-free …

Chalcogenide glass-on-graphene photonics

H Lin, Y Song, Y Huang, D Kita, S Deckoff-Jones… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) materials are of tremendous interest to integrated photonics,
given their singular optical characteristics spanning light emission, modulation, saturable …

Photonic crystal resonances for sensing and imaging

G Pitruzzello, TF Krauss - Journal of Optics, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
This review provides an insight into the recent developments of photonic crystal (PhC)-
based devices for sensing and imaging, with a particular emphasis on biosensors. We focus …

High quality-factor optical nanocavities in bulk single-crystal diamond

MJ Burek, Y Chu, MSZ Liddy, P Patel… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Single-crystal diamond, with its unique optical, mechanical and thermal properties, has
emerged as a promising material with applications in classical and quantum optics …

High-Q slow light and its localization in a photonic crystal microring

X Lu, A McClung, K Srinivasan - Nature Photonics, 2022 - nature.com
We introduce a photonic crystal ring cavity that resembles an internal gear and unites
photonic crystal (PhC) and whispering gallery mode (WGM) concepts. This …

Experimental realization of deep-subwavelength confinement in dielectric optical resonators

S Hu, M Khater, R Salas-Montiel, E Kratschmer… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
The ability to highly localize light with strong electric field enhancement is critical for
enabling higher-efficiency solar cells, light sources, and modulators. While deep …

Free-standing mechanical and photonic nanostructures in single-crystal diamond

MJ Burek, NP De Leon, BJ Shields, BJM Hausmann… - Nano …, 2012 - ACS Publications
A variety of nanoscale photonic, mechanical, electronic, and optoelectronic devices require
scalable thin film fabrication. Typically, the device layer is defined by thin film deposition on …