Book Chapters:

Non-Hermitian Physics and Engineering in Silicon Photonics 

C Wang, Z Fu, L Yang, Silicon Photonics IV, edited by D.J. Lockwood and L. Pavesi, Silicon Photonics IV. Topics in Applied Physics, vol 139. p323-364, Springer.

Non-Hermitian Physics and Exceptional Points in High-Quality Optical Microresonators

W Chen, C Wang, B Peng, L Yang, Ultra-high-Q Optical Microcavities, edited by Y. Xiao, C. Zou Q. Gong and L. Yang, Chapter 8, World Scientific.

Glass in Integrated Photonics

J. Hu and L. Yang, Springer Handbook of Glass, edited by J. David Musgraves, Juejun Hu and Laurent Calvez, p1441-1481, Springer.

Fabrication, coupling and nonlinear optics in ultra-high-Q microsphere and chip-based toroid microcavities 

T. Kippenberg, S. Spillane, D. Armani, B. Min, L. Yang, and K. Vahala, Optical Microcavities, editor K. J. Vahala, Chapter 5, World Scientific.

Label-Free Detection and Measurement of Nanoscale Objects

S. K. Ozdemir, L. He, W. Kim, J. Zhu, F. Monifi, and L. Yang, Understanding Biophotonics: Fundamentals, Advances and Applications, edited by Kevin Tsia, Chapter 9, p441, Jenny Stanford Publishing (formerly known as Pan Stanford Publishing)

Peer-reviewed Journals:

2024

Multimode Sensing by Optical Whispering-gallery-mode Barcodes: A New Route to Expand Dynamic Range for High-resolution Measurement

J Liao, L Yang, IEEE Transaction on Instrumentation and Measurement (2024).

2023

Non-Hermitian chiral degeneracy of gated graphene metasurfaces

S Baek, SH Park, D Oh, K Lee, S Lee, H Lim, T Ha, HS Park, S Zhang, L Yang, B Min, TT Kim, Light: Science & Applications (2023).

High-Q WGM resonators encapsulated in PDMS for highly sensitive displacement detection

J Liao, A Qavi, M Adolphson, L Yang, Journal of Lightwave Technology (2023).

From Whispering Gallery Mode Resonators to Biochemical Sensors

M Loyez, M Adolphson, J Liao, L Yang, ACS sensors (2023).

A whispering-gallery scanning microprobe for Raman spectroscopy and imaging

W Mao, Y Li, X Jiang, Z Liu, L Yang, Light: Science & Applications (2023).

Photonic van der Waals integration from 2D materials to 3D nanomembranes

Y Meng, J Feng, S Han, Z Xu, W Mao, T Zhang, Justin Kim, IIpyo Roh, Y Zhao, Dong-Hwan Kim, Nature Reviews Materials (2023).

Chirality Induced Nonreciprocity in a Nonlinear Optical Microresonator

J Qie, C Wang, L Yang, Laser & Photonics Reviews (2023).

Non-Hermitian optics and photonics: from classical to quantum

C Wang, Z Fu, W Mao, J Qie, AD Stone, L Yang, Advances in Optics and Photonics (2023).

Non-Hermitian Chiral Heat Transport

G Xu, X Zhou, Y Li, Q Cao, W Chen, Y Xiao, L Yang, CW Qiu, Physical Review Letters (2023).

Local chirality at exceptional points in optical whispering-gallery microcavities

J Zhu, C Wang, C Tao, Z Fu, H Liu, F Bo, L Yang, G Zhang, J XuPhysical Review A (2023).

2022

Fully integrated parity–time-symmetric electronics

W Cao, C Wang, W Chen, S Hu, H Wang, L Yang, X Zhang, Nature Nanotechnology, 1-7 (2022).

Detection of biomarkers for filoviral infection with a silicon photonic resonator platform

Krista Meserve, Abraham J Qavi, M Javad Aman, Hong Vu, Larry Zeitlin, John M Dye, Jeffrey W Froude, Daisy W Leung, Lan Yang, Frederick W Holtsberg, Gaya K Amarasinghe, Ryan C Bailey, STAR protocols 3 (4), 101719 (2022)

Optomechanically induced thermal bistability in an optical microresonator

Z Fu, L Yang, Physical Review A (2022).

Fully integrated topological electronics

Y Liu, W Cao, W Chen, H Wang, L Yang, X Zhang, Scientific reports (2022).

Detection of biomarkers for filoviral infection with a silicon photonic resonator platform

Krista Meserve, Abraham J. Qavi, M. Javad Aman, Hong Vu, Larry Zeitlin, John M. Dye, Jeffrey W. Froude, Daisy W. Leung, Y Lan, Frederick W. Holtsberg, Gaya K. Amarasinghe, Ryan C. Bailey, STAR protocols (2022).

Rapid detection of an Ebola biomarker with optical microring resonators

Abraham J. Qavi, Krista Meserve, M. Javad Aman, Hong Vu, Larry Zeitlin, John M. Dye, Jeffrey W. Froude, Daisy W. Leung, Lan Yang, Frederick W. Holtsberg, Ryan C. Bailey, Gaya K. Amarasinghe, Cell reports methods (2022).

Multimodal light-sensing pixel arrays

Y Qu, S Yi, L Yang, Z Yu, Applied Physics Letters (2022).

2021

Optomechanical dissipative solitons

J. Zhang, B. Peng, S. Kim, F. Monifi, X. Jiang, Y. Li, P. Yu, L. Liu, Y. Liu, A. Alù, L. Yang, Nature 600 (7887), 75-80 (2021).

Coherent perfect absorption at an exceptional point

C Wang, WR Sweeney, AD Stone, L. Yang, Science 373 (6560), 1261-1265 (2021)

Optical whispering gallery mode barcodes for high-precision and wide-range tempera-ture measurements

J. Liao, and L. Yang, Light: Science & Applications, 10 (1), 1-11 (2021)

Induced transparency by interference or polarization

C. Wang, X. Jiang, W. R. Sweeney, C. W. Hsu, Y. Liu, G. Zhao, B. Peng, M. Zhang, L. Jiang, A. D. Stone, and L. Yang, Proceed-ings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 118 (3) e2012982118 (2021)

Angle-based wavefront sensing enabled by the near fields of flat optics

S Yi, J Xiang, Zhou, Z Wu, L Yang, Z Yu, Nature communications 12 (1), 1-8 (2021)

Synchronization in PT-symmetric optomechanical resonators

CL Zhu, YL Liu, L Yang, YX Liu, J Zhang, Photonics Research 9 (11), 2152-2166 (2021)

Toward transformable photonics: Reversible deforming soft cavities, controlling their resonance split and directional emission 

M. Douvidzon, S. Maayani, H. Nagar, T. Ad-mon, V. Shuvayev, L. Yang, L. Deych, Y. Roichman, T. Carmon, APL Photonics 6 (7), 071304 (2021)

A fiber optic–nanophotonic approach to the detection of antibodies and viral particles of COVID-19

N. Rajil, A. Sokolov, Z. Yi, G. Adams, G. Agarwal, V. Belousov, R. Brick, K. Chapin, J. Cirillo, V. Deckert, S. Delfan, S. Esmaeili, A. Fernandez-Gonzalez, E. Fry, Z. Han, P. Hemmer, G. Kattawar, M. Kim, M. Lee, C. Lu, J. Mogford, B. Neuman, J.-W. Pan, T. Peng, V. Poor, S. Scully, Y. Shih, S. Suckewer, A. Svidzinsky, A. Verhoef, D. Wang, K. Wang, L Yang, A. Zheltikov, S. Zhu, S. Zubairy, M. Scully, Nanophotonics 10 (1), 235-246 (2021)

2020

Electromagnetically induced transparency at a chiral exceptional point

C. Wang, X. Ji-ang, G. Zhao, M. Zhang, C. Hsu, B. Peng, A D. Stone, L. Jiang, and L. Yang, Nature Physics, 16, 334–340 (2020)

Nonreciprocal Transmission of Microwave Acoustic Waves using Nonlinear Parity-Time Symmetric Resonators

L. Shao, W. Mao, S. Maity, N. Sinclair, Y. Hu, L. Yang, and M. Loncar, Nature Electronics, 3, 267–272 (2020)

Whispering-Gallery Sensors

X Jiang, AJ Qavi, SH Huang, L Yang, Matter 3 (2), 371-392 (2020) (Invited review article)

Optothermal dynamics in whispering-gallery microresonators

X Jiang, L Yang, Light: Science & Applications 9 (1), 1-15 (2020) (Review article)

Effects of the magnetodipole corrections on the spectra of spheroidal whispering gallery mode resonators interacting with a dielectric nanoparticle

L Deych, L Yang, Optics Let-ters 45 (6), 1435-1438 (2020)

Optothermally induced mechanical oscillation in a silk fibroin coated high-Q microsphere

Y Liu, X Jiang, C Wang, L Yang, Applied Physics Letters 116 (20), 201104 (2020)

Microstar cavities: An alternative concept for the confinement of light

J Kullig, X Jiang, L Yang, J Wiersig, Physical Review Research 2 (1), 012072 (2020)

First-principles Studies of Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Properties of Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Halide Perovskites

W Song, GY Guo, S Huang, L Yang, L Yang, Physical Review Applied 13 (1), 014052 (2020)

Highly efficient optical add-drop filter with an angle-polished fiber coupler

R Dong, Z Fan, J Liao, A Qavi, GL Long, L Yang, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 32 (1), 71-74 (2020)

Enhanced Directional Coupling of Light with a Whispering Gallery Microcavity

F Lei, G Tkachenko, X Jiang, JM Ward, L Yang, S Nic Chormaic, ACS Photonics, 7 (2), 361-365 (2020)

2019

Parity–time symmetry and exceptional points in photonics

SK Ozdemir, S Rotter, F Nori, L Yang, Nature materials 18 (8), 783-798 (2019)

Symmetry-breaking-induced nonlinear optics at a microcavity surface

X Zhang, QT Cao, Z Wang, Y Liu, CW Qiu, L Yang, Q Gong, YF Xiao, Nature Photonics, 13, 21-24 (2019).

Quantum noise theory of exceptional point amplifying sensors

M Zhang, W Sweeney, CW Hsu, L Yang, AD Stone, L Jiang, Physical review letters 123 (18), 180501 (2019)

Enhanced sideband responses in a PT-symmetric-like cavity magnomechanical system

SN Huai, YL Liu, J Zhang, L Yang, Y Liu, Physical Review A 99 (4), 043803 (2019).

Raman Laser Switching Induced by Cascaded Light Scattering

S Kasumie, F Lei, JM Ward, X Jiang, L Yang, S Nic Chormaic, Laser & Photonics Reviews 13 (10), 1900138 (2019).

2018

A phonon laser operating at an exceptional point

J. Zhang, B. Peng, S. K. Ozdemir, K. Pichler, D. O. Krimer, G. Zhao, F. Nori, Y. Liu, S. Rotter, and L. Yang, Nature Photonics, 12, 479-484 (2018).

Fighting chaos with chaos in lasers 

L. Yang, Science, 361(6408), 1201 (2018)

Wireless whispering-gallery-mode sensor for thermal sensing and aerial mapping

X. Xu, W. Chen, G. Zhao, Y. Li, C. Lu and L. Yang, Light: Science & Applications, 7, Article number 62 (2018)
Nonreciprocity in synthetic photonic materials with nonlinearity

W Chen, D Leykam, YD Chong, L Yang, MRS Bulletin 43 (6), 443-451 (2018) (Invited review article)

Parity-time-symmetric whispering-gallery mode nanoparticle sensor

W Chen, J Zhang, B Peng, SK Ozdemir, X Fan, L Yang, Photonics Research 6 (5), A23-A30 (2018)

Surface-enhanced Raman scattering on dielectric microspheres with whispering gallery mode resonance

SH Huang, X Jiang, B Peng, C Janisch, A Cocking, SK Ozdemir, Z Liu, and L. Yang, Photonics Research 6 (5), 346-356 (2018).

Whispering gallery mode resonator sensor for in situ measurements of hydrogel gelation

SH Huang, S Sheth, E Jain, X Jiang, SP Zustiak, L Yang, Optics express 26 (1), 51-62 (2018).

A Scatterer assisted whispering gallery mode microprobe

F Shu, X Jiang, G Zhao, L Yang, Nanophotonics, 7(8), 1455-1460 (2018)

Optomechanically Induced Transparency at Exceptional Points 

H Lu, C Wang, L Yang, H Jing, Physical Review Applied 10 (1), 014006 (2018)

2017

Chaos-assisted broadband momentum transformation in optical microresonators

X. Jiang, L. Shao, S.-X. Zhang, X. Yi, J. Wiersig, L. Wang, Q. Gong, M. Lončar, L. Yang, and Y.-F. Xiao, Science, 358, 344-347 (2017)

Exceptional points enhance sensing in an optical microcavity

Weijian Chen, Özdemir Ş Kaya, Guangming Zhao, Jan Wiersig, Lan Yang, Nature 548, 192-196 (10 August 2017)

Single nanoparticle detection using optical microcavities

Y Zhi, XC Yu, Q Gong, L Yang, YF Xiao, Advanced Materials 29 (12) (2017)

Tunable erbium-doped microbubble laser fabricated by sol-gel coating

Y Yang, F Lei, S Kasumie, L Xu, JM Ward, L Yang, SN Chormaic, Optics Express 25 (2), 1308-1313 (2017)

Polymer encapsulated microcavity optomechanical magnetometer

J Zhu, G Zhao, I Savukov, L Yang, Scientific Reports 7, Article Number, 8896 (2017)

Controllable oscillatory lateral coupling in a waveguide-microdisk-resonator system

F Bo, ŞK Özdemir, F Monifi, J Zhang, G Zhang, J Xu, L Yang, Scientific Reports 7, Article Number: 8045 (2017)

Raman lasing and Fano lineshapes in a packaged fiber-coupled whispering-gallerymode microresonator

G. Zhao, S. K. Ozdemir, T. Wang, L. Xu, G.-l. Long, L. Yang, Science Bulletin, 62(12), 875-878 (2017)

Tunable erbium-doped microbubble laser fabricated by sol-gel coating

Y Yang, F Lei, S Kasumie, L Xu, JM Ward, L Yang, SN Chormaic, Optics Express 25 (2), 1308-1313

2016

Phone-sized whispering-gallery microresonator sensing system

X. Xu, X. Jiang, G. Zhao, L. Yang, Optics Express, 24 (23), 25905-25910 (2016)

High-Q silk fibroin whispering gallery microresonator

L. Xu, X. Jiang, G. Zhao, D. Ma, H. Tao, Z. Liu, F. G. Omenetto, L. Yang, Optics Express, Vol. 24, Issue 18, 20825-20830 (2016), arXiv:1606.05412 [physics.optics] (2016)

A simple method for characterizing and engineering thermal relaxation of an optical microcavity 

W. Chen, J. Zhu, S. K. Ozdemir, B. Peng and L. Yang, Appl. Phys. Lett. 109, 061103 (2016)

Optomechanically induced stochastic resonance and chaos transfer between optical fields

F. Monifi, J. Zhang, S. K. Ozdemir, B. Peng, Y.-X. Liu, F. Bo, F. Nori, L. Yang, Nature Photonics 10, 399–405 (2016)

Chiral modes and directional lasing at exceptional points

B. Peng, S. K. Ozdemir, M. Liertzer, W. Chen, J. Kramer, H. Yılmaz, J. Wiersig, S. Rotter, L. Yang, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 113 No. 25 , 6845–6850 (2016)

Four-wave mixing parametric oscillation and frequency comb generation at visible wave-lengths in a silica microbubble resonator

Yong Yang, Xuefeng Jiang, Sho Kasumie, Guangming Zhao, Linhua Xu, Jonathan M Ward, L. Yang, Síle Nic Chormaic, Optics Let-ters, 41(22), 5266-5269 (2016)

2015

Lithium‐Niobate–Silica Hybrid Whispering‐Gallery‐Mode Resonators 

F. Bo, J. Wang, J. Cui, S. K. Ozdemir, Y. Kong, G. Zhang, J. Xu, L. Yang, Advanced Materials, Volume 27, Issue 48 December 22, 2015 Pages 8075–8081

Vertically coupled microresonators and oscillatory mode splitting in photonic molecules

F. Bo, S. K. Ozdemir, B. Peng, J. Wang, G. Zhang, J. Xu, and  L. Yang, Optics Express, Vol. 23, Issue 24, pp. 30793-30800 (2015)

Raman gain induced mode evolution and on-demand coupling control in whispering-gallery-mode microcavities

X. Yang, S K. Ozdemir, B. Peng, H. Yilmaz, F.-C. Lei, G.-L. Long, and L. Yang, Optics Express, Vol. 23, Issue 23, pp. 29573-29583 (2015)

2014

Loss induced suppression and revival of lasing

B. Peng, S. K. Ozdemir, S. Rotter, H. Yilmaz, M. Liertzer, F. Monifi, C. M. Bender, F. Nori, and L. Yang, Science. Vol. 346, Issue 6207, 328-332 (2014)

Highly sensitive detection of nanoparticles with a self-referenced and self-heterodyned whispering-gallery Raman microlaser
SK Ozdemir, J Zhu, X Yang, B Peng, H Yilmaz, L He, F Monifi, GL Long, L. Yang, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Vol. 111, No. 37, E3836-3844 (2014)

What is- and what is not- Electromagnetically-Induced-Transparency in Whispering-Gallery-Microcavities

B. Peng, SK Ozdemir, W. Chen, F. Nori and L. Yang, Nature Communication, Vol. 5, Article number: 5082 (2014)

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

J. Zhu, SK. Ozdemir, H. Yilmaz, B. Peng, M. Dong, M. Tomes, T. Carmon, and L. Yang, Scientific Report, Vol. 4, Article number: 6396 (2014)

On-Chip Titanium Dioxide Whispering Gallery Microcavities

J. Park, SK. Ozdemir, F. Monifi, T. Chadha, S. H. Huang, P. Biswas, and L. Yang, Advanced Optical Materials, Vol. 2, Issue 8, 711-717, August 2014

Dynamic Fano-like resonances in erbium-doped whispering-gallery-mode microresonators

F. Lei, B. Peng, S. K. Ozdemir, G. L. Long, L. Yang, Appl. Phys. Lett. 105, 101112 (2014)

Parity-time-symmetric whispering-gallery microcavities

B Peng, SK Ozdemir, F Lei, F Monifi, M Gianfreda, GL Long, S Fan, F Nori, CM Bender, L. Yang, Nature Physics, Vol. 10, 394-398 (2014). doi:10.1038/nphys2927

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

J. Zhu, SK. Ozdemir and L. Yang, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 104, No. 17, 171114 (2014)

2013

Twofold transition in PT-symmetric coupled oscillators

Carl M Bender, Mariagiovanna Gianfreda, Sahin K Ozdemir, Bo Peng, L. Yang, Phys. Rev. A, Vol. 88, Issue 18, 062111 (2013)

Tunable add-drop filter using an active whispering gallery mode microcavity

F Monifi, SK Ozdemir, L. Yang, App. Phy. Lett. 103, 181103, 2013

Encapsulation of a Fiber Taper Coupled Microtoroid Resonator in a Polymer Matrix

F. Monifi, S. K. Ozdemir, J. Friedlein, L. Yang, Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE 25 (15), 1458-1461

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

L. He, S. K Ozdemir, J. Zhu, F. Monifi, H. Yılmaz and L. Yang, New Journal of Physics 15 (7)

On-chip whispering-gallery-mode microlasers and their applications for nanoparticle sensing

S. K. Ozdemir, L He, J Zhu, F Monifi, W Kim, O Kenechukwu, H Yilmaz, SH Huang, L. Yang, SPIE OPTO, 86270N-86270N-10

Whispering gallery microcavity lasers

L. He, S. K. Ozedemir, and L. Yang, Lasers & Photonics Reviews, Vol. 7, No. 1, 60-82 (2013) [Invited review]

2012

Label-free detection with high-Q microcavities: a review of Biosensing mechanisms for integrated devices

F. Vollmer and L. Yang, Nanophotonics, Vol. 1, 267-291 (2012)[ Invited review]

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

W Kim, SK Ozdemir, J Zhu, F Monifi, C Coban, L. Yang, Optics Express 20 (28), 29426-29446

Photonic molecules formed by coupled hybrid resonators

B. Peng, S. K. Ozdemir, J. Zhu and L. Yang, Optics Letters, Vol. 37, Issue 16, pp. 3435-3437 (2012)

A Robust and Tunable Add-Drop Filter Using Whispering Gallery Mode Microtoroid Resonator

F Monifi, J Friedlein, S Ozdemir, L. Yang, IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. PP, Issue 99 (2012)

2011

Bypassing the diffusion limit

J. Zhu, S.K. Ozdemir and L. Yang, Nature Photonics, (2011). Cover image for the Nov 11 issue of Nature Photonics, Vol. 5, 653-654

Optothermal spectroscopy of whispering gallery microresonators

J. Zhu, S. K. Ozdemir, L. He, and L. Yang, Applied Physics Letters, 99, 171101 (2011)

Single virus and nanoparticle size spectrometry by whispering-gallery-mode microcavities

J. Zhu, S.K. Ozdemir, L. He, D. R. Chen and L. Yang, Optics Express, Vol. 19, Issue 17, pp 16195-16206 (2011), Selected for publication in the Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics (VJBO)Vol. 6, Issue 9.

Detecting single viruses and nanoparticles using whispering gallery microlasers

L. He, S.K. Ozdemir, J. Zhu, Woosung Kim, and L. Yang, Nature Nanotechnology, doi:10.1038/nnano.2011.99, June 26 (2011)

Optical detection of single nanoparticles with a subwavelength fiber-taper

J. Zhu, S.K. Ozdemir, and L. Yang, Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 23, Issue 18, pp 1346-1348 (2011)

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

Woosung Kim, Sahin K. Ozdemir, Jiangang Zhu, and L. Yang, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 98, 141106 (2011)

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

S.K. Ozdemir, J. Zhu , L. He and L. Yang, Phy. Rev. A, Vol. 83, 033817 (2011)

2010

Demonstration of mode splitting in an optical microcavity in aqueous environment

Woosung Kim, Sahin K. Ozdemir, Jiangang Zhu ,L. He and L. Yang, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 97, 071111 (2010)

Controlled manipulation of mode splitting in an optical microcavity by two Rayleigh scatterers

J. Zhu , S.K. Ozdemir, L. He and L. Yang, Opt. Express, Vol. 18, Issue, 23, 23535-23543 (2010)

Ultrasensitive detection of mode splitting in active optical microcavities

L. He, S.K. Ozdemir, J. Zhu and L. Yang, Phy. Rev. A, Vol. 82, Issue 5, 053810 (2010)

Gain-induced Evolution of Mode Splitting Spectra in a High-Q Active Microresonator

L. He, S.K. Ozdemir, J. Zhu and L. Yang, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, Vol. 46, 1626-1633 (2010)

Scatterer induced mode splitting in PDMS coated microresonators

L. He, S.K. Ozdemir, J. Zhu and L. Yang, App. Phy. Lett. Vol. 96, 221101 (2010)

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

L. He, S.K. Ozdemir, J. Zhu and L. Yang, Opt. Letters, Vol.35, 256-258 (2010)

2009

On-chip single nanoparticle detection and sizing by mode splitting in an ultrahigh-Q microresonator

J. Zhu, S.K. Ozdemir, Y.F.Xiao, L. Li, L. He, D.R. Chen and L. Yang, Nature Photonics, doi:10.1038/nphoton.2009.237, Dec. 13 (2009)

Oscillatory thermal dynamics in high-Q PDMS-coated silica toroidal microresonators

L. He, Y.F.Xiao, J. Zhu, S.K. Ozdemir and L. Yang, Opt. Exp. Vol. 17, 9571-9581 (2009)

Electromagnetically induced transparency-like effect in a single polydimethylsiloxane-coated silica microtoroid

Y.F. Xiao, L. He and L. Yang, App. Phy. Lett. Vol. 94, 231115 (2009)

Fabrication of high-Q PDMS optical microspheres with applications towards thermal sensing

C.H. Dong, L. He, Y.F.Xiao, V. Goddam, S.K. Ozdemir, Z.F. Han, G.C. Guo and L. Yang, App. Phy. Lett. Vol. 94, 231119 (2009)

High-Q Plasmon-polariton whispering-gallery microcavity

B. Min, E. Ostby, V. Sorger, E. Ulin-Avila, L. Yang, X. Zhang, and K. J. Vahala, Nature, Vol. 457, 455-458 (2009)

A green light silica microlaser by three-photon upcoversion

T. Lu, L. Yang, R.V.A. Van Loon, A. Polman and K. Vahala, Opt. Lett. Vol. 34, 482-484 (2009)

Low-threshold microlaser in a high-Q asymmetrical microcavity

Y.F.Xiao, C.H. Dong, C.L. Zou, Z.F. Han, L. Yang and G.C. Guo, Opt. Lett. Vol. 34, 509-511 (2009)

2008

Compensation of thermal refraction effect in high-Q toroidal microresonator by polydimethylsiloxane coating

L. He, Y.F.Xiao, C.Dong, J. Zhu, V. Goddam, and L. Yang, App. Phy. Lett. Vol. 93, 201102 (2008), This paper has been selected for the December 1, 2008 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology.

Quantum nondemolition measurement of photon number via optical Kerr effect in an ultra-high-Q microtoroid cavity

Y.F.Xiao, S.K. Ozdemir, V. Goddam, C.H.Dong, N. Imoto and L. Yang, Opt. Express, Vol. 16, 21462-21475, 2008

Coupled Optical microcavities: an enhanced refractometric sensing configuration

Yun-Feng Xiao, Venkat Gaddam and Lan Yang, Opt. Express, 16, 12538-12543 (2008)

Coupling whispering-gallery-mode microcavities with modal coupling mechanism

Yun-Feng Xiao, Bumki Min, Xiaoshun Jiang, Chun-Hua Dong, and Lan Yang, IEEE J. of Quantum Electronics, Vol. 44, 1065 (2008)

Static Envelope Patterns in Composite Resonances Generated by Level Crossing in Optical Toroidal Microcavities

Tal Carmon, Harald G.L.Schwefel, Lan Yang, Mark Oxborrow, A. Douglas Stone, and Kerry J. Vahala, Phy. Rev. Lett. 100, 103905 (2008)

2007 and Before

Perturbative analytic theory of an ultrahigh-Q toroidal microcavity

Bumki Min,, Lan Yang, and Kerry Vahala, Phy. Rev. A. Vol. 76, p013823 (2007).

Ultralow-threshold Yb:SiO 2 glass laser fabricated by the solgel process

Eric Ostby, Lan Yang, and Kerry Vahala, Opt. Lett. Vol. 32, p 2650 (2007).

Visible Submicron Microdisk Lasers

Zhaoyu Zhang, Lan Yang, Victor Liu, Ting Hong, Kerry Vahala, Axel Scherer, App. Phy. Lett. Vol. 90, p 111119 (2007).

Ultralow threshold on-chip microcavity nanocrystal quantum dot lasers

Bumki Min, Sungjee Kim, Koichi Okamoto, Lan Yang, Axel Scherer, Harry Atwater and Kerry Vahala, App. Phy. Lett. Vol. 89, p 191124 (2006).

Transmission characteristics of a Fabry-Perot etalon-microtoroid resonator coupled system

Wei Liang, Lan Yang, Joyce Poon, Yanyi Huang, Kerry J. Vahala, and Amnon Yariv, Optics Lett. Vol. 31 (2006).

Controlled transition between parametric and Raman oscillations in ultra-high-Q silica toroidal microcavities

Bumki. Min, Lan Yang, and Kerry J. Vahala, App. Phy. Lett., Vol. 87, p 181109 (2005).

Erbium-doped and Raman microlasers on a silicon chip fabricated by the sol-gel process

Lan Yang, Tal Carmon, B. Min, S. M. Spillane, and Kerry J. Vahala, App. Phy. Lett., Vol. 86, p 091114, 2005.

Feedback control of ultra-high-Q microcavities: application to micro-Raman lasers and microparametric oscillators

Tal Carmon, T. J. Kippenberg, Lan Yang, H. Rokhsari, S. M. Spillane, and Kerry J. Vahala, Opt. Express, Vol. 13, No. 9, p 3558, 2005.

Temporal behavior of radiation-pressure-induced RF-oscillation of an optical microcavity photon mode

Tal Carmon, H. Rokhsari, Lan Yang, T. J. Kippenberg, and Kerry J. Vahala, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 94, p 223902, 2005.

Dynamical thermal behavior and thermal self-stability of microcavities

Tal Carmon, Lan Yang, and Kerry J. Vahala, Opt. Express, Vol. 12, No. 20, P 4742, 2004.

Replica-molded high-Q polmer microresonators

Andrea Martin, Deniz Armani, Lan Yang and Kerry J. Vahala, Opt. Lett., Vol. 29, No. 6, p533, 2004.

Erbium-implanted High-Q silica toroidal microcavity laser on a silicon chip

Bumki Min, T. J. Kippenberg, Lan Yang, K. J. Vahala, J. Kalkman, A. Polman, Phy. Rev. A., Vol. 70, No. 3, p033803, 2004.

Fiber-coupled Erbium microlasers on a chip

Lan Yang, Deniz Armani and Kerry J. Vahala, App. Phys. Lett., Vol. 83, No. 5, p 825, 2003.

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