Spectroscopy and optical imaging of coalescing dropletsShow others and affiliations
2016 (English)In: Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XIII / [ed] Kishan Dholakia; Gabriel C. Spalding, SPIE , 2016, article id 99220IConference paper, Published paper (Other academic)
Abstract [en]
We report on experimental investigations of the dynamics of colliding liquid droplets by combining optical trapping, spectroscopy and high-speed color imaging. Two droplets with diameters between 5 and 50 microns are suspended in quiescent air by optical traps. The traps allows us to control the initial positions, and hence the impact parameter and the relative velocity of the colliding droplets. Movies of the droplet dynamics are recorded using high-speed digital movie cameras at a frame rate of up to 63000 frames per second. A fluorescent dye is added to one of the colliding droplets. We investigate the temporal evolution of the scattered and fluorescence light from the colliding droplets with concurrent spectroscopy and color imaging. This technique can be used to detect the exchange of molecules between a pair of neutral or charged droplets.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
SPIE , 2016. article id 99220I
Series
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, ISSN 0277-786X, E-ISSN 1996-756X ; 9222
Keywords [en]
Droplet coalescence, Fluorescence spectroscopy, High-speed imaging, Optical levitation
National Category
Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-105562DOI: 10.1117/12.2236634ISI: 000389060700013Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85006127297OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-105562DiVA, id: diva2:1859778
Conference
Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XIII, San Diego, United States, August 28-September 1, 2016
Funder
Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, KAW 2014.0048Swedish Institute, Visby
Note
ISBN for host publication: 9781510602359, 9781510602366
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