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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2011

Optical microspherical resonators for biomedical sensing.

Silvia Soria, Simone Berneschi, Massimo Brenci, Franco Cosi, Gualtiero Nunzi Conti, Stefano Pelli, Giancarlo C Righini

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Silvia SoriaMDF Lab, Istituto di Fisica Applicata Nello Carrara (IFAC CNR), Via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy. s.soria@ifac.cnr.it
Simone Berneschi
Massimo Brenci
Franco Cosi
Gualtiero Nunzi Conti
Stefano Pelli
Giancarlo C Righini

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Optical resonators play an ubiquitous role in modern optics. A particular class of optical resonators is constituted by spherical dielectric structures, where optical rays are total internal reflected. Due to minimal reflection losses and to potentially very low material absorption, these guided modes, known as whispering gallery modes, can confer the resonator an exceptionally high quality factor Q, leading to high energy density, narrow resonant-wavelength lines and a lengthy cavity ringdown. These attractive characteristics make these miniaturized optical resonators especially suited as laser cavities and resonant filters, but also as very sensitive sensors. First, a brief analysis is presented of the characteristics of microspherical resonators, of their fabrication methods, and of the light coupling techniques. Then, we attempt to overview some of the recent advances in the development of microspherical biosensors, underlining a number of important applications in the biomedical field.

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biomedical sensorsmicrospheresoptical resonatorswhispering gallery modes

Identifiers

PMID22346603
PMCPMC3274111

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