1. “Single Nanoparticle Detection using Ultra-High-Q Microtoroid,” Jiangang Zhu, Yun-Feng Xiao, Lin Li, Lina He, Da-Ren Chen, and Lan Yang,  Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and the International Quantum Electronics Conference, 2009.  New~

2. “Fabrication of High-Q PDMS Optical Microspheres with Applications Towards Thermal Sensing,” Chun-Hua Dong, Li-Na He, Yun-Feng Xiao, Venkat Gaddam, Sahin Ozdemir, Lan Yang, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and the International Quantum Electronics Conference, 2009.    New~

3.  “Compensation of Thermal Effect in High-Q Toroidal Microresonators by PDMS Coating,” Lina He, Yunfeng Xiao, Chunhua Dong, Jiangang Zhu, Venkat Gaddam, Lan Yang, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and the International Quantum Electronics Conference, 2009.  New~

4. “Level Crossing in Toroidal on-Chip Microcavities,” H. Schwefel, L. Yang, M. Oxborrow, A.D. Stone, K.Vahala, and T. Carmon,  Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and the International Quantum Electronics Conference, 2009.  New~

5. “Observation of EIT-Like Effect in a Single High-Q Microcavity,” Yun-Feng Xiao, Lina He, Jiangang Zhu, Lan Yang, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and the International Quantum Electronics Conference, 2009.  New~

6. “Frequency Noise of a Microchip Raman Laser,,” Tao Lu, Lan Yang, Tal Carmon, Bumki Min, and Kerry Vahala,  Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and the International Quantum Electronics Conference, 2009.  New~

7.  “High-Q surface-Plasmon whispering-gallery microcavity,” Bumki Min, Eric Ostby, Volker Sorger, Erick Ulin-Avila, Lan Yang, Xiang Zhang, and Kerry Vahala, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and the International Quantum Electronics Conference, 2009.  New~

8. “An on-chip Erbium doped three-photon upconversion silica microlaser emitting at green wavelengths” Tao Lu, Lan Yang, R.V. van Loon, A. Polman, K. Vahala, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science, 2008.

9.  “Nano-Watt scale threshold, silicon chip based micro-cavity laser: from integrated photonic circuits to biosensing,” Oct. 2007, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

10. "A 4-Hz fundamental linwidth on-chip microlaser, " Lan Yang, Tao Lu, Bumki Min,   Kerry J. Vahala, CLEO/QELS 2007, May 23-27, Baltimore, MD

11. “On-chip, ultra-low threshold Yb silica laser," Eric P. Ostby, Lan Yang and Kerry J.  Vahala, CLEO/QELS 2007, May 23-27, Baltimore, MD

12.  “Visible Submicron Semiconductor Disk Laser,”  ZY Zhang , L. Yang, V Liu, T Hong, K Vahala, and A Scherer,  SPIE Photonic West 2007, San Jose, CA, Jan, 2007

13. “Ultralow threshold on-chip toroidal microcavity nanocrystal quantum dot lasers”, Bumki Min, Sungjee Kim, Koichi Okamoto, Lan Yang, Axel Scherer, Harry Atwater, and Kerry Vahala, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS, 2006.

14.  “Fabrication and characterization of microlasers on a Si wafer by Sol-Gel process”,  Lan Yang, Bumki Min, and Kerry J. Vahala, the 13^th International Workshop on Sol-Gel Science and Technology, August 21-26, 2005, Los Angeles, CA

15.  “Transition between Parametric and Raman Oscillation in High-Q Silica Toroidal Microcavities”, Bumki Min, Lan Yang, Tobias Kippenberg, and Kerry J. Vahala, CLEO/QELS 2005, May 23-27, Baltimore, MD

16. “Temporal Behavior of Radiation-Pressure-Induced RF oscillation of an optical Micro-cavity Phonon Mode”, Tal Carmon, Hossein Rokhsari, Lan Yang, Tobias Kippenberg, and Kerry J. Vahala, CLEO/QELS 2005, May 23-27, Baltimore, MD

17. “Dynamical Thermal Behavior and Thermal Self-stability of Microcavities”, Tal Carmon, Lan Yang and Kerry. J. Vahala, CLEO/QELS 2005, May 23-27, Baltimore, MD

18.  “Ultra-High Q Microresonators Devices for Optical Communications”, Kerry J. Vahala, T. Kippenberg, D. Armani, S. Spillane, Lan Yang, and Tal Carmon, OFC/NFOEC 2005, March 6-11, Anaheim, CA

19.  “Ultra-high-Q (>100-million) micro-cavities on silicon for stimulated and parametric lasers sources”, K. Vahala, T. Kippenberg, D. Armani, S. Spillane, Lan Yang, and Tal Carmon,  Technical Digest of Optical Fiber Communication Conference, OFC/NFOEC, 2005.

20.  “Solgel route to erbium-doped microlasers and Raman microlasers on-a-chip”, Lan Yang, Sean M. Spillane, Bumki Min and Kerry J. Vahala, CLEO/IQEC 2004, May 16-21, San Francisco, CA

21.  “Low threshold erbium-implanted toroidal microcavity laser”, Bumki Min, Tobias Kippenberg, Lan Yang, Jeroen Kalkman, Albert Polman, and Kerry J. Vahala, CLEO/IQEC 2004, May 16-21, San Francisco, CA

22. “Rare-earth doped microlasers for microphotonic applications”, Lan Yang, Bumki Min, Tal Carmon and Kerry J. Vahala, MRS Spring meeting 2004, April 12-16, San Francisco, CA

23. “Micromolding of High Q Toroid Resonator”, A.L.Martin, L. Yang, D. Armani, and K. J. Vahala, LEOS 2003, October 26-30, Tucson, Arizona

24.  “Low-threshold Erbium Fiber-coupled Microlaser on a Chip”, Lan Yang, Deniz Armani and Kerry J. Vahala, Frontiers in Optics 2003, October 5-9, Tucson, Arizona

25.  “Gain Functionalization of silica microresonators”, Lan Yang and Kerry. J. Vahala, CLEO/QELS 2003, June 1-6, Baltimore, MD