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 language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation VI |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2009 Nov 23 |
| Event | Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation VI - San Diego, CA, United States Duration: 2009 Aug 2 → 2009 Aug 6 |
Publication series
| Name | Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering |
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| Volume | 7400 |
| ISSN (Print) | 0277-786X |
Conference
| Conference | Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation VI |
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| Country | United States |
| City | San Diego, CA |
| Period | 09/8/2 → 09/8/6 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Computer Science Applications
- Applied Mathematics
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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Wright, E. M., Lee, W. M., Dholakia, K., El-Ganainy, R., & Christodoulides, D. N. (2009). Optical nonlinearity of liquid nanosuspensions: Kerr versus exponential model. In Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation VI [74001J] (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 7400). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.825865