Title

Optical Nonlinearity Of Liquid Nanosuspensions: Kerr Versus Exponential Model

Keywords

Nonlinear processes; Optical trapping

Abstract

We report our experimental and theoretical progress towards elucidating the nonlinear optical response of nanosuspensions. To date, we have devised a fiber-optic variant of the Z-scan method to accurately measure the nonlinearity of liquid nanosuspensions. Furthermore, we shall show that the optical nonlinearity may be properly accounted theoretically by including both the virial coefficients for the soft-condensed matter system in addition to the exponential term, which does not account for particleparticle interactions, yielding an effective or renormalized Kerr effect in many cases. © 2009 SPIE.

Publication Date

11-23-2009

Publication Title

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volume

7400

Number of Pages

-

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1117/12.825865

Socpus ID

70449637802 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/70449637802

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