Temperature dependence of optical Kerr effect in water and optically active medium

Zdzislaw Blaszczak; Maher Farhoud

doi:10.1117/12.146176

17 June 1993 Temperature dependence of optical Kerr effect in water and optically active medium

Zdzislaw Blaszczak, Maher Farhoud

Proceedings Volume 1922, Laser Study of Macroscopic Biosystems; (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.146176
Event: Laser Spectroscopy of Biomolecules: 4th International Conference on Laser Applications in Life Sciences, 1992, Jyvaskyla, Finland

Abstract

The first systematic measurements of the temperature dependence of optically induced birefringence in double-distilled water and optically active solutions in the temperature interval from 275 K to 328 K are reported. Also, the absolute value of the optical Kerr constant for water at room temperature (293 K) is measured. We found good agreement between earlier work and ours. The refractive indices and densities of the solutions also were measured in the same temperature interval. From our measurements, the nonlinear molar optical Kerr constant, orientational-redistributional molar optical Kerr constant, mean third-order polarizability and mean nonlinear polarizability for water, and optically active medium also have been determined.

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Zdzislaw Blaszczak and Maher Farhoud "Temperature dependence of optical Kerr effect in water and optically active medium", Proc. SPIE 1922, Laser Study of Macroscopic Biosystems, (17 June 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.146176

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