Abbreviated Journal Title
Opt. Express
Keywords
Artificial Kerr Medium; Nanosuspensions; Instabilities; Light; Media; Optics
Abstract
We experimentally probed the nonlinear optical response of aqueous nano-colloidal suspensions to provide a test of the theoretical approaches that have been proposed for the nonlinearity, namely an exponential model, an artificial Kerr medium, and a non-ideal gas model. The best agreement with experiment is found using the non-ideal gas model for the colloidal suspension which in turn can be used to infer values for the second virial coefficient of the medium and the nonlinear coefficients.
Journal Title
Optics Express
Volume
17
Issue/Number
12
Publication Date
1-1-2009
Document Type
Article
Language
English
First Page
10277
Last Page
10289
WOS Identifier
ISSN
1094-4087
Recommended Citation
Lee, W. M.; El-Ganainy, R.; Christodoulides, D. N.; Dholakia, K.; and Wright, E. M., "Nonlinear optical response of colloidal suspensions" (2009). Faculty Bibliography 2000s. 1784.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib2000/1784