Fig. 2: Schematic drawing of the optical setup used for remote readout with active GaAs semiconductor photonic crystal nanocavities doped with InAs QDs.
From: Review of biosensing with whispering-gallery mode lasers

The box depicts some of the potential sensing modes, e.g., label-free protein detection (left panels). False-colour SEM micrographs of an actual photonic crystal used for streptavidin (SA)-biotin-binding experiments (right panels i and ii)125