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ReviewLight, science & applications2021

Review of biosensing with whispering-gallery mode lasers.

Nikita Toropov, Gema Cabello, Mariana P Serrano, Rithvik R Gutha, Matías Rafti, Frank Vollmer

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Review in Light, science & applications, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 79 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
79citing papers in PubMed
25.6field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

79 citing papers in PubMed, 360 citations in OpenAlex.

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  20. Emergent 2D van der Waals materials photonic sources.Nanophotonics (Berlin, Germany) · 2025
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19 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Nikita ToropovDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QD, UK. n.toropov@exeter.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0297-3661
Gema CabelloDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QD, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1617-7292
Mariana P SerranoDepartamento de Química, Instituto de Investigaciones Fisicoquímicas Teóricas y Aplicadas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, 1900, Argentina.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2476-6794
Rithvik R GuthaDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QD, UK.
Matías RaftiDepartamento de Química, Instituto de Investigaciones Fisicoquímicas Teóricas y Aplicadas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, 1900, Argentina.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3393-358X
Frank VollmerDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QD, UK. f.vollmer@exeter.ac.uk.
University of Exeter · GBInstituto de Investigaciones Fisicoquímicas Teóricas y Aplicadas · AR

Funding

RCUK | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) BB/R022178/1RCUK | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) EP/R031428/1RCUK | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) EP/T002875/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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 suitable for biosensing. WGM lasers have been used for label-free detection of single virus particles, detection of molecular electrostatic changes at biointerfaces, and barcode-type live-cell tagging and tracking. The most recent advances in biosensing with WGM microlasers are described in this review. We cover the basic concepts of WGM resonators, the integration of gain media into various active WGM sensors and devices, and the cutting-edge advances in photonic devices for micro- and nanoprobing of biological samples that can be integrated with WGM lasers.

Identifiers

PMID33637696
PMCPMC7910454
OpenAlexW3130179782

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