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Tunable WGM resonators from optically trapped dye doped liquid crystal emulsion droplets
Author(s): Mojmír Šerý; Zdeněk Pilát; Jan Ježek; Mehdi Aas; Alper Kiraz; Pavel Zemánek
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Paper Abstract

We have built a complex apparatus for optical trapping, stretching, heating and concurrent whispering gallery mode (WGM) lasing excitation of liquid crystal (LC) emulsion micro-droplets doped with various fluorescent dyes. We have explored the changes of WGM lasing wavelength when the LC droplets were optically stretched or electrically heated beyond the transition to the isotropic phase. We have found that the range of lasing wavelengths was in some cases considerably higher than when we optically stretched ordinary fluorescent oil droplets in our previous experiments.

Paper Details

Date Published: 16 September 2014
PDF: 8 pages
Proc. SPIE 9164, Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XI, 916434 (16 September 2014); doi: 10.1117/12.2061986
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Mojmír Šerý, Institute of Scientific Instruments of the ASCR, v.v.i. (Czech Republic)
Zdeněk Pilát, Institute of Scientific Instruments of the ASCR, v.v.i. (Czech Republic)
Jan Ježek, Institute of Scientific Instruments of the ASCR, v.v.i. (Czech Republic)
Mehdi Aas, Koç Univ. (Turkey)
Alper Kiraz, Koç Univ. (Turkey)
Pavel Zemánek, Institute of Scientific Instruments of the ASCR, v.v.i. (Czech Republic)


Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 9164:
Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XI
Kishan Dholakia; Gabriel C. Spalding, Editor(s)

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