Image of the Week - September 6, 2001
Laser Cavity
Silicon fluorescent nanoparticles when aggregated make crystals. The microscopic cavity was designed by coating the crystal with an acrylic gel. The thin acrylic shell is the cavity. When hit with a green light in the 560 nm range, the cavities fluoresce in the red at 620 nm. Note the beam.
Image Courtesy:
- Sahraoui Chaieb - Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics & Beckman Institute
- Munier Nayfe - Department of Physics
Contact: sch@uiuc.edu, m-nayfeh@uiuc.edu
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Uploaded Thu Sep 6 11:37:37 2001 by Karl Garsha
Updated Fri Jan 22 10:18:55 2010 by Daniel E. Weber