Recent progress in research and development on micro-spherical lasers using conventional dve-doped solids and liquids, and dves mixed in hishlv scattering media

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3176, Issue , 1997, Pages 219-226

  Taniguchi, Hiroshi ^a   Tanosaki, Shinji ^a   Nishiya, Masahisa ^a   Devaraj, B ^b   Inaba, Humio ^b,c  

^a IWATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Biophotonics Info Laboratories   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bio material laser; Highly scattering media; Intralipid 10 ; Microdroplet lasers; Morphology dependent resonance; Multiple scattering; New microlaser

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; EMULSIFICATION; LASERS; MULTIPLE SCATTERING; RESONANCE; SCATTERING;

BIO-MATERIAL LASER; HIGHLY SCATTERING MEDIA; INTRALIPID-10%; MICRODROPLET LASERS; NEW MICROLASER;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 57649119889     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.293451     Document Type: Conference Paper

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