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1 online resource (362 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; 1: Glass Microspheres as Optical Resonators; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Theory of WGMs in Glass Microspheres; 1.2.1 The Geometrical Optics Approach: A Qualitative Description of WGMs; 1.2.2 The Maxwell Equations Approach: An Analytic Model for a Glass Microsphere; 1.2.2.1 First step: determination of Ar and Fr expressions; 1.2.2.2 Second step: determination of TE and TM components; 1.2.2.3 Third step: characteristic equations for TE and TM modes; 1.2.3 The "Quantum Theory" of WGMs: A Short Reminder |
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1.2.4 The Figures of Merit of a Glass Microsphere1.2.5 Light Coupling to a Spherical Microresonator: Principles and Strategies; 1.3 Conclusion; 2: Glass Nanospheres and Photonic Crystals; 2.1 Introduction and Survey; 2.2 Scattering of Light by Spherical Objects; 2.2.1 Scattering Theory in a Nutshell; 2.2.1.1 General elastic scattering scenario; 2.2.1.2 Dipole radiation and the local field; 2.2.1.3 Rayleigh scattering of light by a dielectric sphere; 2.3 Interference and Bragg Diffraction; 2.3.1 Interference; 2.3.1.1 Interference of two monochromatic waves |
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2.3.1.2 Multiple-wave interference and Bragg gratings2.3.2 Bragg Diffraction; 2.3.2.1 The Bragg condition; 2.3.2.2 Lattices and planes; 2.3.3 Case Studies: Weevils and Opals; 2.3.3.1 Color of a weevil; 2.3.3.2 Natural and artificial opals; 2.4 Photonic Crystals; 2.4.1 About the Photonic Gap; 2.4.1.1 Brillouin zones and Bragg reflections; 2.4.2 Frequency Domain Methods; 2.4.2.1 The wave equation and Bloch states; 2.4.2.2 Plane-wave methods; 2.4.2.3 Band structure theory and Bragg diffraction; 2.4.3 Some Applications; 2.5 Summary and Outlook; 3: Glass Nanospheres and Artificial Opals |
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3.1 Introduction3.2 Synthesis of Dielectric Nanospheres; 3.2.1 Polystyrene Nanospheres; 3.2.2 Silica Nanospheres; 3.2.3 RE-Activated Silica Core-Shell Particles; 3.2.4 Gold-Silica Nanospheres; 3.3 Artificial Opals by Self-Assembly Approach; 3.4 Properties of Opals; 3.5 Heterostructures; 3.6 Infiltrated Opals; 3.7 Inverse Opals; 3.7.1 Fluorescent Aptamer Immobilization on Inverse Colloidal Crystals; 3.7.2 Metallo-Dielectric Colloidal Crystals; 3.8 Conclusions; 4: Coating of Glass Microspheres; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Coating Methods; 4.3 Low-Refractive-Index Coatings |
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4.4 High-Refractive-Index Coating: General Consideration4.5 Modal Dispersion Tailoring; 4.6 Coating for Sensing Applications; 4.7 Fluorescent Layers for Lasing Application; 4.8 Optically Passive Layers for Thermal Effects; 4.9 Conclusion; 5: Biomedical Sensing Applications of Microspherical Resonators; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Optical Label-Free Biomedical Sensors; 5.2.1 Whispering-Gallery Mode Resonators; 5.2.1.1 Mode splitting and line broadening; 5.2.2 Experimental Setup; 5.3 Surface Functionalization; 5.4 Biochemical Sensing with Passive Microspheres |
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5.5 Biochemical Sensing with Active Microspheres |
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Print version record |
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Glass.
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Glass
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glass (material)
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Glass
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351358415 |
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1351358413 |
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