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A switchable digital microfluidic droplet dye-laser

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LAB ON A CHIP
Volume 11, Issue 21, Pages 3716-3719

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ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c1lc20405j

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  1. NSF [DMR-1006546, ECS-0335765, ECCS-0801412]
  2. Harvard MRSEC [DMR-0820484]
  3. Harvard Center for Nanoscale Systems (CNS), a member of the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN)
  4. Wellman Center
  5. Bullock-Wellman Fellowship
  6. natural sciences and engineering research council of Canada

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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.

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