Sensing and lasing applications of whispering gallery mode microresonators

Yu Zheng; Zhifang Wu; Perry Ping Shum; Zhilin Xu; Gerd Keiser; Georges Humbert; Hailiang Zhang; Shuwen Zeng; Xuan Quyen Dinh

doi:10.29026/oea.2018.180015

Opto-Electronic Advances, Volume. 1, Issue 9, 180015(2018)

Sensing and lasing applications of whispering gallery mode microresonators

Yu Zheng^1,2, Zhifang Wu^2,3、*, Perry Ping Shum^1,2, Zhilin Xu⁴, Gerd Keiser⁵, Georges Humbert⁶, Hailiang Zhang^1,2, Shuwen Zeng⁶, and Xuan Quyen Dinh^2,7

Author Affiliations

¹COFT, School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore

²CINTRA, CNRS/NTU/Thales Research Alliance, Singapore 637553, Singapore

³Fujian Key Laboratory of Light Propagation and Transformation, College of Information Science and Engineering, Huaqiao University, Xiamen 361021, China

⁴Center for Gravitational Experiments, School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China

⁵Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston 02215, USA

⁶XLIM Research Institute, UMR 7252 CNRS/University of Limoges, Limoges 87060, France

⁷R&T, Thales Solutions Asia Pte Ltd, Singapore 498755, Singapore

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Paper Information

Category: Review

Received: Aug. 27, 2018

Accepted: Oct. 25, 2018

Published Online: Jan. 10, 2019

The Author Email: Wu Zhifang (wzh.fang@gmail.com)

DOI:10.29026/oea.2018.180015

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