Lasers are the pillars of modern optics and sensing. Microlasers based on whispering-
gallery modes (WGMs) are miniature in size and have excellent lasing characteristics …

Plasmonic biosensing has been used for fast, real-time, and label-free probing of
biologically relevant analytes, where the main challenges are to detect small molecules at …

The performance of light microscopes is limited by the stochastic nature of light, which exists
in discrete packets of energy known as photons. Randomness in the times that photons are …

Quantum metrology is one of the most promising applications of quantum technologies. The
aim of this research field is the estimation of unknown parameters exploiting quantum …

Soliton frequency combs generate equally-distant frequencies, offering a powerful tool for
fast and accurate measurements over broad spectral ranges. The generation of solitons in …

Measuring the binding kinetics of single proteins represents one of the most important and
challenging tasks in protein analysis. Here we show that this is possible using a surface …

The extraordinary sensitivity of plasmonic sensors is well-known in the optics and photonics
community. These sensors exploit simultaneously the enhancement and the localization of …

Label-free sensors are highly desirable for biological analysis and early-stage disease
diagnosis. Optical evanescent sensors have shown extraordinary ability in label-free …

Single-molecule biosensors serve the unmet need for real time detection of individual
biological molecules in the molecular crowd with high specificity and accuracy, uncovering …

The contractility of cardiac cells is a key parameter that describes the biomechanical
characteristics of the beating heart, but functional monitoring of three-dimensional cardiac …