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20092025
most citedOn-chip Single Nanoparticle Detection and Sizing by Mode Splitting in an Ultra-high-Q Microresonator

1.2k citations · 2.8k across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

physics.optics2025

Nonlinear Symmetry Breaking to Enhance the Sagnac Effect in a Microresonator Gyroscope

Thariq Shanavas, Gregory Krueper, Jiangang Zhu +2

Optical gyroscopes based on the Sagnac effect have been widely used for inertial navigation in aircrafts, submarines, satellites and unmanned robotics. With the rapid progress in t…

physics.app-ph2019

Multi-functional integrated photonics in the mid-infrared with suspended AlGaAs on silicon

Jeff Chiles, Nima Nader, Eric J. Stanton +14

The microscale integration of mid- and longwave-infrared photonics could enable the development of fieldable, robust chemical sensors, as well as highly efficient infrared frequenc…

physics.optics2014★ 1 cited

Interfacing whispering-gallery microresonators and free space light with cavity enhanced Rayleigh scattering

Jiangang Zhu, Sahin Kaya Ozdemir, Huzeyfe Yilmaz +5

Whispering gallery mode resonators (WGMRs) take advantage of strong light confinement and long photon lifetime for applications in sensing, optomechanics, microlasers and quantum o…

physics.optics2014★ 24 cited

Infrared light detection using a whispering-gallery-mode optical microcavity

Jiangang Zhu, Sahin Kaya Ozdemir, Lan Yang

We demonstrate a thermal infrared (IR) detector based on an ultra-high-quality-factor (Q) whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) microtoroidal silica resonator, and investigate its performa…

physics.optics2014★ 232 cited

Raman-gain induced loss-compensation in whispering-gallery-microresonators and single-nanoparticle detection with whispering-gallery Raman-microlasers

Sahin Kaya Ozdemir, Jiangang Zhu, Xu Yang +6

Recently optical whispering-gallery-mode resonators (WGMRs) have emerged as promising platforms to achieve label-free detection of nanoscale objects and to reach single molecule se…

physics.optics2013★ 32 cited

Optical Detection of Single Nanoparticles with a Sub-wavelength Fiber-Taper

Jiangang Zhu, Sahin Kaya Ozdemir, Lan Yang

A nanoparticle detection scheme with single particle resolution is presented. The sensor contains only a taper fiber thus offering the advantages of compactness and installation fl…

physics.optics2013★ 30 cited

Statistics of multiple-scatterer induced frequency splitting in whispering gallery microresonators and microlasers

Lina He, Sahin Kaya Ozdemir, Jiangang Zhu +3

We investigate numerically and experimentally the statistics of the changes in the amount of frequency splitting upon the adsorption of particles one-by-one into the mode volume of…

physics.optics2013★ 37 cited

Detection and size measurement of individual hemozoin nanocrystals in aquatic environment using a whispering gallery mode resonator

Woosung Kim, Sahin Kaya Ozdemir, Jiangang Zhu +3

We, for the first time, report the detection and the size measurement of single nanoparticles (i.e. polystyrene) in aquatic environment using mode splitting in a whispering gallery…

physics.optics2013★ 74 cited

Photonic molecules formed by coupled hybrid resonators

Bo Peng, Sahin Kaya Ozdemir, Jiangang Zhu +1

We describe a method that enables free-standing whispering-gallery-mode microresonators, and report spectral tuning of photonic molecules formed by coupled free and on-chip resonat…

physics.optics2011★ 703 cited

Detecting single viruses and nanoparticles using whispering gallery microlasers

Lina He, Sahin Kaya Ozdemir, Jiangang Zhu +2

Detection and characterization of individual nano-scale particles, virions, and pathogens are of paramount importance to human health, homeland security, diagnostic and environment…

physics.optics2011★ 55 cited

Observation and characterization of mode splitting in microsphere resonators in aquatic environment

Kim Woosung, Sahin Kaya Ozdemir, Jiangang Zhu +1

Whispering gallery mode (WGM) optical resonators utilizing resonance shift (RS) and mode splitting (MS) techniques have emerged as highly sensitive platforms for label-free detecti…

physics.optics2011★ 49 cited

Estimation of Purcell factor from mode-splitting spectra in an optical microcavity

Sahin Kaya Ozdemir, Jiangang Zhu, Lina He +1

We investigate scattering process in an ultra-high-Q optical microcavity coupled to subwavelength scatterers by introducing "splitting quality" Qsp, a dimensionless parameter defin…

physics.optics2010★ 74 cited

Demonstration of mode splitting in an optical microcavity in aqueous environment

Woosung Kim, Sahin Kaya Ozdemir, Jiangang Zhu +2

Scatterer induced modal coupling and the consequent mode splitting in a whispering gallery mode resonator is demonstrated in aqueous environment. The rate of change in splitting as…

physics.optics2010★ 71 cited

Ultra-sensitive detection of mode splitting in active optical microcavities

Lina He, Sahin Kaya Ozdemir, Jiangang Zhu +1

Scattering induced mode splitting in active microcavities is demonstrated. Below the lasing threshold, quality factor enhancement by optical gain allows resolving, in the wavelengt…

physics.optics2010★ 17 cited

Self-pulsation in fiber-coupled on-chip microcavity lasers

Lina He, Sahin Kaya Ozdemir, Jiangang Zhu +1

We report self-pulsation in an erbium-doped silica toroidal microcavity laser coupled to a tapered fiber and investigate the effects of pump power and taper-cavity coupling conditi…

physics.optics2010★ 29 cited

Scatterer induced mode splitting in poly(dimethylsiloxane) coated microresonators

Lina He, Sahin Kaya Ozdemir, Jiangang Zhu +1

We investigate scatterer induced mode splitting in a composite microtoroidal resonator (Q ~ 10^6) fabricated by coating a silica microtoroid (Q ~ 10^7) with a thin poly(dimethylsil…

physics.optics2010★ 153 cited

Controlled Manipulation of Mode Splitting in an Optical Microcavity by Two Rayleigh Scatterers

Jiangang Zhu, Sahin Kaya Ozdemir, Lina He +1

We report controlled manipulation of mode splitting in an optical microresonator coupled to two nanoprobes. It is demonstrated that, by controlling the positions of the nanoprobes,…

physics.optics2009★ 1.2k cited

On-chip Single Nanoparticle Detection and Sizing by Mode Splitting in an Ultra-high-Q Microresonator

Jiangang Zhu, Sahin Kaya Ozdemir, Yun-Feng Xiao +4

The ability to detect and size individual nanoparticles with high resolution is crucial to understanding behaviours of single particles and effectively using their strong size-depe…