• DocumentCode
    1770860
  • Title

    Whispering gallery mode biosensing using back-scattered light

  • Author

    Knittel, Joachim ; Swaim, J.D. ; McAuslan, D.L. ; Brawley, G.A. ; Bowen, W.P.

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Math. & Phys., Univ. of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    8-13 June 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We present a new technique for whispering gallery mode biosensing involving direct detection of the back-scattered light. This results in suppressing laser frequency noise by 27 dB, and gives an absolute sensitivity of 76 kHz.
  • Keywords
    biosensors; optical sensors; whispering gallery modes; back-scattered light detection; frequency 76 kHz; gain 27 dB; laser frequency; whispering gallery mode biosensor; Frequency measurement; Frequency modulation; Noise; Optical resonators; Optical sensors; Resonant frequency;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6989139