Sensitivity of polymeric microdisks is evaluated for selected compounds in their vapor phase such as humidity, isopropanol, toluene, limonene, 1-butanol, and pentanoic acid (valeric acid). Among these compounds, exhibits the highest sensitivity (23 pm/ppm) with a limit detection estimated to be around 0.6 ppm. We are interested contribution geometry deformation due polymer swelling on it may en...

A low-cost millimeter-wave dielectric-resonator filter using a high-order whispering-gallery mode with the coupling of curved microstrip transmission line has been successfully developed for the mode selection in a millimeter-wave optoelectronic oscillator. The achieved 3-dB bandwidth of this filter is 10.5 MHz (loaded quality factor, Q, is about 3,000) or 0.03 percent at 31.5 GHz with a 3-dB i...

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 resonators with different geometries and materials. We study direct coupling via evanescent fields of free silica microtoroids and microspheres with on-chip polymer coated silica microtoroids. We demonstrate thermal tuning o...