Highly scattering Intralipid-10% assisted lasing from microdroplets with Acridine Orange dye

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2379-2384

  Tanosaki, Shinji ^a   Taniguchi, Hiroshi ^a   Tsujita, Kazuhiro ^b,c   Devaraj, B ^b   Inaba, Humio ^b,d  

^a IWATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Biophotonics Info Laboratories   (Japan)

^c Fuji Film Co   (Japan)

^d TOHOKU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYE LASERS; DYES; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT EMISSION; LIPIDS; LIQUIDS; MIXING; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; RAMAN SCATTERING; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

ACRIDINE ORANGE DYE; EMISSION PEAK INTENSITY; INTRALIPID; LASING; MICRODROPLETS;

LASER OPTICS;

EID: 0032046399     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.002379     Document Type: Article

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