Advanced Photonic Structure for Biological and Chemical Detection

General Introduction.- Section I: Photonic structures for chemical vapor sensing.- Micro-resonator Sensors Made in Polymers with Functional Chromophore Dopants.- Modal Transition in Nano-Coated Long Period Fiber Gratings: Principle and Applications to Chemical Sensing.- New Approach for Selective Vapor Sensing Using Structurally Colored Self-Assembled Films.- Methods of Cavity-Enhanced Laser Absorption Spectroscopy Using Microresonator Whispering-Gallery Modes.- Rapid chemical vapor detection using optofluidic ring resonators.- Miniaturized Optical Fiber Inline Interferometers for Chemical Sensing.- Section II. Photonic structures for biochemical sensing.- Label-free Bio-Chemical Sensors Based on Optical Micro-Resonators.- Silicon Photonic Wire Waveguide Sensors.- A Fast and Sensitive Integrated Young Interferometer Biosensor.- The BioCD: High-Speed Interferometric Optical Biosensor.- Ultra-Sensitive biochemical optical detection using distributed feedback nano-lasers.- Optical micro/nanofibers for sensing applications.- Label-Free Biosensing with the Optofluidic Ring Resonator.- Deep-Probe Optical Waveguides for Chemical and Biosensors.- Section III. Microfluidics enabled photonic sensing systems.- Optically Resonant Nanophotonic Devices for Label-Free Biomolecular Detection.- Droplet based cavities and lasers.- Single molecule analysis with planar optofluidics.- Optofluidic ring resonator dye microlasers