Chiral composition is designed for highly viscous lasing microemitters. The composition forms cholesteric liquid crystal and after doping with pyrromethene 597 was used as an active lasing media in stretchable aluminized silicone cavities. Optical pumping of the system led to lasing at the wavelengths defined by a degree of cavity deformation. Lasing thresholds were lower in aluminized cavity than in transparent cavity. A simple model allowing to predict the shift of lasing wavelength as a function of deformation is developed.

A two-dimensional cylindrical shear-flow wave theory for the generation of microseisms and infrasound by hurricanes and cyclones is developed as a linearized theory paralleling the seminal work by Longuet-Higgins which was limited to one-dimensional plane waves. Both theories are based on Bernoulli's principle. A little appreciated consequence of the Bernoulli principle is that surface gravity waves induce a time dependent pressure on the sea floor through a vertical column of water. A significant difference exists between microseisms detected at the bottom of each column and seismic signals radiated into the crust through coherence over a region of the sea floor. The dominant measured frequency of radiated microseisms is matched by this new theory for seismic data gathered at the Fordham Seismic Station both for a hurricane and a mid-latitude cyclone in 1998. Implications for Bernoulli's principle and this cylindrical stress flow theory on observations in the literature are also discussed.