TY - GEN
T1 - Optical nonlinearity of liquid nanosuspensions
T2 - Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation VI
AU - Wright, E. M.
AU - Lee, W. M.
AU - Dholakia, K.
AU - El-Ganainy, R.
AU - Christodoulides, D. N.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1117/12.825865
DO - 10.1117/12.825865
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:70449637802
SN - 9780819476906
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
BT - Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation VI
Y2 - 2 August 2009 through 6 August 2009
ER -