Cavity enhanced droplet spectroscopy: Principles, perspectives and prospects

R Symes, RM Sayer, JP Reid - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2004 - pubs.rsc.org
Micron-sized liquid droplets exhibit unique optical properties, including lower threshold
energies for non-linear optical processes than are observed in the bulk liquid phase …

Optofluidic dye lasers

Z Li, D Psaltis - Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 2008 - Springer
Optofluidic dye lasers are microfabricated liquid dye lasers enabled by the microfluidics
technology. The integration of dye lasers with microfluidics not only facilitates the …

Optical resonators with whispering-gallery modes-part II: applications

VS Ilchenko, AB Matsko - IEEE Journal of selected topics in …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical resonators with whispering-gallery modes-part II: applications Page 1 IEEE JOURNAL
OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS, VOL. 12, NO. 1, JANUARY/FEBRUARY …

Spontaneous decay in the presence of dispersing and absorbing bodies: General theory and application to a spherical cavity

HT Dung, L Knöll, DG Welsch - Physical Review A, 2000 - APS
A formalism for studying spontaneous decay of an excited two-level atom in the presence of
dispersing and absorbing dielectric bodies is developed. An integral equation, which is …

[PDF][PDF] Review of applications of whispering-gallery mode resonators in photonics and nonlinear optics

AB Matsko, AA Savchenkov, D Strekalov… - IPN Progress …, 2005 - ipnpr.jpl.nasa.gov
We review recent advances in the application of dielectric whispering-gallery (WG)
resonators in optics and photonics, tracing the growth of the technology from the …

Resonant-enhanced evanescent-wave fluorescence biosensing with cylindrical optical cavities

S Blair, Y Chen - Applied Optics, 2001 - opg.optica.org
We show that the artificial resonances of dielectric optical cavities can be used to enhance
the detection sensitivity of evanescent-wave optical fluorescence biosensors to the binding …

Spontaneous light emission in complex nanostructures

LA Blanco, FJG De Abajo - Physical review B, 2004 - APS
The spontaneous emission of an excited atom surrounded by different materials is studied in
the framework of a semiclassical approach, where the transition dipole moment acts as the …

Spontaneous emission of europium ions embedded in dielectric nanospheres

H Schniepp, V Sandoghdar - Physical review letters, 2002 - APS
We measure fluorescence lifetimes of emitters embedded in isolated single dielectric
nanospheres. By varying the diameters of the spheres from 100 nm to 2 μ m and by …

Spontaneous emission of an atom in the presence of nanobodies

VV Klimov, M Ducloy, VS Letokhov - Quantum Electronics, 2001 - iopscience.iop.org
The effect of nanobodies, ie, the bodies whose size is small compared to the emission
wavelength, on spontaneous emission of an atom located near them is considered. The …

A recursive transfer-matrix solution for a dipole radiating inside and outside a stratified sphere

A Moroz - Annals of Physics, 2005 - Elsevier
Fast and numerically stable transfer-matrix solution is presented for the classical
electromagnetics problem of a dipole radiating inside and outside a stratified sphere …