Tunable whispering gallery mode emission from a microdroplet in elastomer

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 11915-11919

  Saito, Mitsunori ^a   Shimatani, Hiroya ^a   Naruhashi, Hideyuki ^a  

^a RYUKOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROP BREAKUP; DROPS; ELASTOMERS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PLASTICS; SILICONES;

DROPLET DIAMETERS; METHANOL SOLUTION; MICRO DROPLETS; POLYSILOXANE RESINS; RESONANCE PEAK; WAVELENGTH RANGES; WAVELENGTH TUNING; WHISPERING GALLERY MODE EMISSION;

WHISPERING GALLERY MODES;

ELASTOMER; RHODAMINE; RHODAMINE 6G;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; MICROFLUIDICS; OSCILLOMETRY; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

ELASTOMERS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; MICROFLUIDICS; OSCILLOMETRY; RHODAMINES;

EID: 49149117953     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.011915     Document Type: Article

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