Versatile optofluidic ring resonator lasers based on microdroplets

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 19668-19674

  Lee, Wonsuk ^a   Luo, Yunhan ^a,b,c   Zhu, Qiran ^a   Fan, Xudong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUIDIC DEVICES; FLUORESCENCE; MICROFLUIDICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

CARRIER FLUIDS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HIGH Q FACTOR; HIGH REFRACTIVE INDEX; IMMISCIBLE FLUIDS; LASING CHARACTERISTICS; LASING EMISSIONS; LASING THRESHOLD; LASING WAVELENGTH; MICRO DROPLETS; MICROFLUIDIC CHANNEL; OPTO-FLUIDIC RING RESONATOR; SMALL SAMPLES;

DROPS;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; MICROFLUIDICS; OPTICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; LASERS; LIGHT; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; MICROFLUIDICS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SOLUTIONS;

EID: 80053234304     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.019668     Document Type: Article

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