Absorption effects on microdroplet resonant emission structure.

The effect of absorption on microdroplet resonance emission line intensities was studied in 15-microm-diameter Rhodamine 6G/ethanol solution droplets. Absorption was controlled by varying the concentration of the additive nigrosin. Spectrally integrated intensities of resonant features are found to be proportional to a droplet cavity mode efficiency Q(a)/(Q(a)+Q(o)) expressed in terms of cavity output coupling and absorption factors Q(o) and Q(a), respectively. These Q's are determined from linewidths calculated from Lorenz-Mie theory by using combinations of the real and complex indices of refraction. An experimental upper limit of Q for first-order modes was determined to be 10(8) from the data.

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