Lasing Droplets: Highlighting the Liquid-Air Interface by Laser Emission
- 31 January 1986
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 231 (4737), 486-488
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.231.4737.486
Abstract
When dye-doped ethanol droplets are irradiated with an intense pulsed laser beam, the resulting laser emission from individual droplets highlights the liquid-air interface. Photographs of the lasing droplets in the micrometer size range taken in a single 10-nanosecond laser pulse clearly show the dynamic changes in droplet size, shape, and orientation.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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