General Introduction -- General Introduction -- Photonic Structures for Chemical Vapor Sensing -- Microresonator 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 -- Photonic Structures for Biochemical Sensing -- Label-Free Biochemical Sensors Based on Optical Microresonators -- 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 Nanolasers -- Optical Micro/Nanofibers for Sensing Applications -- Label-Free Biosensing with the Optofluidic Ring Resonator -- Deep-Probe Optical Waveguides for Chemical and Biosensors -- 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 -- Erratum To.

Part of Springer’s Integrated Analytical Systems series, Advanced Photonic Structures for Biological and Chemical Detection covers the latest research and development of various novel photonic structures and their respective advantages in biological and chemical sensing. The subjects include: Optical ring resonators Distributed feedback resonators Fiber gratings Fabry-Pérot interferometers Mach-Zehnder interferometers Michelson interferometer Young interferometers Spinning-disc interferometers Photonic crystals Micro/nanofibers and photonic wires Slot waveguides Folded waveguides Metal clad waveguides Reverse symmetry waveguides Liquid core antiresonant reflecting optical waveguides This book will interest researchers working in the area of bio-chemical detection and analysis. It will also serve as an excellent reference for graduate students to help acquaint them with new research in photonic bio-chemical sensors.