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 …

The application of optical tweezers (a single-beam gradient force optical trap) to the
manipulation and characterisation of aerosol particles is discussed in this tutorial review …

A liquid droplet can act as a microscale high-Q optical cavity via a whispering gallery mode,
where light resonates with enhanced intensity. A collision of two droplets temporarily …

The theory of light scattering by spheres possessing one or more spherical inhomogeneities
is developed. The inhomogeneities, or subspheres, are of uniform but otherwise arbitrary …

A general class of multifacet optical resonators that have uniform polygonal geometries is
described. Expressions for the transmission of light through classical refractive escape from …

A micron-sized liquid droplet acts as a very high-quality factor optical cavity. The cavity
modes are referred to as morphology-dependent resonances (MDRs), which are sensitive to …

The characterization of aerosol properties and processes, non-intrusively and directly, poses
a severe analytical challenge. In order to understand the role of aerosols in often complex …

We demonstrate that the coagulation of two aerosol droplets of different chemical
composition can be studied directly through the unique combination of optical tweezers and …

The overview of the optic effects observed in micrometer—size droplets is given. The scope
of the analyzed phenomena includes: fundamentals of microdroplet optics; quantum …

Resonance structure in elastic scattering was measured for evaporating micrometer-sized
glycerol droplets suspended in an electrodynamic trap. Seeding the droplets with …