Whispering gallery modes in standard optical fibres for fibre profiling measurements and sensing of unlabelled chemical species.

Journal article

Whispering gallery mode resonances in liquid droplets and microspheres have attracted considerable attention due to their potential uses in a range of sensing and technological applications. We describe a whispering gallery mode sensor in which standard optical fibre is used as the whispering gallery mode resonator. The sensor is characterised in terms of the response of the whispering gallery mode spectrum to changes in resonator size, refractive index of the surrounding medium, and temperat...

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Authors: Boleininger, A; Lake, T; Hami, S; Vallance, C

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 1765-1781
• Publication date: 2010-01-01
• DOI: 10.3390/s100301765
• EISSN: 1424-8220
• ISSN: 1424-8220
• Language: English
• Keywords: Biotin; Water; Chemistry Techniques, Analytical; Models, Theoretical; Sensitivity and Specificity; Optical Fibers; Refractometry; Air; Streptavidin