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Dependence of a giant optical nonlinearity of planaroriented nematics on the thickness of a sample

B. Ya. Zel'dovich, N. F. Pilipetskiĭ, A. V. Sukhov


Abstract: An analysis is made of the dependence of a giant optical nonlinearity of a nematic on the thickness of a sample L divided by the characteristic size a of a transverse inhomogeneity of the optical field. It is shown (and confirmed experimentally) that a nonlinear advance of the phase of light in a sample depends strongly and differently on L in the cases when L≪a and L≫a.

UDC: 532.783.087

PACS: 61.30.-v, 42.65.-k, 42.10.Qj

Received: 02.06.1982

 English version: Soviet Journal of Quantum Electronics, 1983, 13:5, 645–647

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