Optical nonlinearity of liquid nanosuspensions: Kerr versus exponential model

E. M. Wright, W. M. Lee, K. Dholakia, R. El-Ganainy, D. N. Christodoulides

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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.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationOptical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation VI
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
EventOptical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation VI - San Diego, CA, United States
Duration: Aug 2 2009Aug 6 2009

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume7400
ISSN (Print)0277-786X

Other

OtherOptical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation VI
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Diego, CA
Period8/2/098/6/09

Keywords

  • Nonlinear processes
  • Optical trapping

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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