Fluorescent and lasing whispering gallery mode microresonators for sensing applications

T Reynolds, N Riesen, A Meldrum… - Laser & Photonics …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Whispering gallery modes (WGMs) have been exploited for a broad range of sensing
applications. However, the vast majority of WGM sensors consist of passive resonators …

Luminescent ion-doped transparent glass ceramics for mid-infrared light sources

J Ren, X Lu, C Lin, RK Jain - Optics Express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Glass ceramics (GCs), which consist essentially of a homogeneous solid state dispersion of
nanocrystals (NCs) embedded in a chemically inert and mechanically robust glass matrix …

Expanding the toolbox of photon upconversion for emerging frontier applications

J Huang, L Yan, S Liu, L Tao, B Zhou - Materials Horizons, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Photon upconversion in lanthanide-based materials has recently shown compelling
advantages in a wide range of fields due to their exceptional anti-Stokes luminescence …

Lanthanide‐Based Luminescent Materials for Waveguide and Lasing

X Chen, T Sun, F Wang - Chemistry–An Asian Journal, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Microlasers and waveguides have wide applications in the fields of photonics and
optoelectronics. Lanthanide‐doped luminescent materials featuring large Stokes/anti …

Emerging and perspectives in microlasers based on rare-earth ions activated micro-/nanomaterials

Z Chen, G Dong, G Barillaro, J Qiu, Z Yang - Progress in Materials Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Microlasers have drawn considerable attention for applications in future optoelectronic
nanoscience and nanotechnology, owing to the capability of scaling physical dimension of …

Rare earth-doped glass whispering gallery mode micro-lasers

G Frigenti, S Berneschi, D Farnesi, S Pelli… - … Physical Journal Plus, 2023 - epjplus.epj.org
We review the works performed on whispering gallery mode (WGM) micro-optical resonators
made in rare-earth (RE) doped glasses for implementing low threshold and narrow line …

Lanthanide-based microlasers: Synthesis, structures, and biomedical applications

Q Zhang, Y Liu, K Liu, H Zhang - Nano Research, 2024 - Springer
The large size of lasers limits their applications in confined spaces, such as in biosensing
and in vivo brain tissue imaging. In this regard, micron-sized lasers have been developed …

Ultrahigh-Q WGM microspheres from ZBLAN for the mid-IR band

TS Tebeneva, AE Shitikov, OV Benderov… - Optics Letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The advantages of high-quality-factor (high-Q) whispering gallery mode (WGM)
microresonators can be applied to develop novel photonic devices for the mid-infrared (mid …

Ultralow-threshold neodymium-doped microsphere lasers on a silicon chip

Y Ding, H Fan, X Zhang, X Jiang, M **ao - Optics Communications, 2017 - Elsevier
We demonstrate ultralow-threshold neodymium-doped silica microsphere lasers on a silicon
chip with lasing wavelengths of~ 900 nm and~ 1060 nm. Neodymium-doped microsphere …

Narrow-linewidth mid-infrared coherent sources based on fiber-amplified Er: ZBLAN microspherical lasers

B Behzadi, RK Jain… - 2016 Conference on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Narrow-linewidth mid-infrared coherent sources based on fiber-amplified Er:ZBLAN
microspherical lasers Page 1 STh1O.5.pdf CLEO:2016 © OSA 2016 Narrow-linewidth mid-infrared …