A switchable digital microfluidic droplet dye-laser

Alexander J. C. Kuehne; Malte C. Gather; Irwin A. Eydelnant; Seok-Hyun Yun; David A. Weitz; Aaron R. Wheeler

doi:10.1039/c1lc20405j

A switchable digital microfluidic droplet dye-laser

Alexander J. C. Kuehne, Malte C. Gather, Irwin A. Eydelnant, Seok-Hyun Yun, David A. Weitz, Aaron R. Wheeler^*

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Abstract

Digital microfluidic devices allow the manipulation of droplets between two parallel electrodes. These electrodes can act as mirrors generating a micro-cavity, which can be exploited for a droplet dye-laser. Three representative laser-dyes with emission wavelengths spanning the whole visible spectrum are chosen to show the applicability of this concept. Sub-microlitre droplets of laser-dye solution are moved in and out of a lasing site on-chip to down-convert the UV-excitation light into blue, green and red laser-pulses.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3716-3719
Number of pages	4
Journal	Lab on a Chip
Volume	11
Issue number	21
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/c1lc20405j
Publication status	Published - 2011

Keywords

CHIP
TECHNOLOGY
INTERFACE
CHANNEL
LIGHT

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A switchable digital microfluidic droplet dye-laser

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