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Aerosol-based coherent random laser |
Optics Letters, Vol. 37, Issue 6, pp. 1053-1055 (2012)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.37.001053
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Abstract
We demonstrate coherent random lasing from an aerosol of dye-doped microdroplets in air. The aerosol is in the form of a linear array of polydisperse, arbitrarily shaped, and randomly spaced microdroplets with average dimensions of about 30 μm. Upon optical excitation, ultranarrow lasing modes were observed in the emission along the axis of the linear array, while the transverse emission exhibited intrascatterer resonance peaks. Direct spatiospectral imaging and lasing threshold studies confirmed the origin of the lasing peaks to be from spatial modes that extended over the array of the polydisperse microdroplets.
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OCIS Codes
(140.2050) Lasers and laser optics : Dye lasers
(160.3380) Materials : Laser materials
(290.4210) Scattering : Multiple scattering
(160.2710) Materials : Inhomogeneous optical media
ToC Category:
Scattering
History
Original Manuscript: December 1, 2011
Revised Manuscript: January 21, 2012
Manuscript Accepted: February 13, 2012
Published: March 12, 2012
Citation
Anjani Kumar Tiwari, Ravitej Uppu, and Sushil Mujumdar, "Aerosol-based coherent random laser," Opt. Lett. 37, 1053-1055 (2012)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ol/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-37-6-1053
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