Continuously tunable microdroplet-laser in a microfluidic channel

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 2204-2215

  Tang, Sindy K Y ^a   Derda, Ratmir ^a   Quan, Qimin ^a,b   Loncar, Marko ^b   Whitesides, George M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUIDIC DEVICES; MICROCAVITIES; MICROFLUIDICS; SPRAY NOZZLES;

BENZYL ALCOHOL; CONTINUOUS PHASE; DISPERSE PHASE; DYE-DOPED; EMISSION CHARACTERISTICS; MICRO DROPLETS; MICROFLUIDIC CHANNEL; OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION; OPTICAL MICROCAVITIES; TUNABILITIES; WHISPERING GALLERY MODES;

DROP FORMATION;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; MICROFLUIDICS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; LENSES; MICROFLUIDICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SOLUTIONS;

EID: 79851500938     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.002204     Document Type: Article

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