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 …

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 …

Optical whispering-gallery mode (WGM) microresonators, confining resonant photons in a
microscale volume for long periods of time, strongly enhance light-matter interactions …

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

Nanophotonic device building blocks, such as optical nano/microcavities and plasmonic
nanostructures, lie at the forefront of sensing and spectrometry of trace biological and …

All-dielectric metasurfaces have great potential as highly sensitive refractometric sensors
relying on their spectral shifts because of an extensive range of design flexibilities and their …

Sensors are devices or systems able to detect, measure and convert magnitudes from any
domain to an electrical one. Using light as a probe for optical sensing is one of the most …

We propose and numerically demonstrate the existence of bound state in the continuum
(BIC) in silicon-based one-dimensional photonic crystal nanobeam (1D-PCN). The 1D-PCN …

In recent years, the sensitivity and specificity of optical sensors has improved tremendously
due to improvements in biochemical functionalization protocols and optical detection …

Absorption microscopy is a promising alternative to fluorescence microscopy for single-
molecule imaging. So far, molecular absorption has been probed optically via the …