Theory of stimulated concentration scattering of light in a liquid suspension of transparent microspheres

Autor: A. A. Afanas’ev, I. E. Ermolaev, S. Yu. Mikhnevich, A. N. Rubinov
Rok vydání: 2007
Předmět:
Zdroj: Optics and Spectroscopy. 102:106-111
ISSN: 1562-6911
0030-400X
DOI: 10.1134/s0030400x07010195
Popis: A theory of stimulated light scattering in a nonlinear liquid suspension of transparent microspheres—an artificially created medium whose nonlinearity is caused by modulation of the concentration of microspheres by gradient forces in a field of spatially inhomogeneous laser radiation—is constructed. The threshold, angular, and spectral characteristics of the scattering are studied in the diffusion-limit approximation based on the solution of the system of wave equations in combination with the Planck-Nernst two-dimensional equation for the concentration of microspheres. The transient regime of scattering in the field of a specified step-like pump pulse is considered. A sharp angular dependence of the scattering efficiency on the microsphere radius is predicted and proposed for use in optical diagnostics of liquid suspensions of dielectric microspheres—highly efficient wideband nonlinear media.
Databáze: OpenAIRE