Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Laser beam-induced non-linear effects in optically active media

  • Papers
  • Published:
Opto-electronics Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

A general equation is proposed for the dynamical electric permittivity tensor, taking into account, besides frequency dispersion, spatial dispersion describing the linear and non-linear optical activities of the medium. It permits one to determine the symmetry relations and value of the optical Kerr effect, a generalised Havelock relation, and the non-linear change in optical rotation angle for arbitrary conditions of observation. Simple examples are adduced to give a microscopic interpretation of the results derived, rendering apparent the basic mechanisms (fluctuations of density, non-linear changes in the optical polarisability tensor and gyration tensor, molecular reorientation, and various radial and angular correlations) leading to induced optical non-linearities. Measurements of non-linear changes in optical rotation angle are shown to be promising in solutions of polymers or colloids, and will permit,inter alia, direct determinations of the anisotropy of gyration properties of molecules macromolecules and colloid particles.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. M. Born, “Optik” (Springer, Berlin, 1933).

    Google Scholar 

  2. M. V. Volkenshteyn, “Molekularnaya Optika” (Gostekhizdat, Moscow, 1951).

    Google Scholar 

  3. P. Langevin,Radium (Paris) 7 (1910) 249.

    Google Scholar 

  4. A. D. Buckingham,Proc. Phys. Soc. B,69 (1956) 344–349.

    Google Scholar 

  5. S. Kielich andA. Piekara,Acta Phys. Polonica 18 (1959) 439–471.

    Google Scholar 

  6. G. Mayer andF. Gires,C.R. Acad. Sci., Paris 258 (1964) 2039–2042.

    Google Scholar 

  7. M. Paillette,C.R. Acad. Sci., Paris,B 262 (1966) 264;266 B (1968) 920–922.

    Google Scholar 

  8. P. D. Maker andR. W. Terhune,Phys. Rev. 137 (1965) A801–818.

    Google Scholar 

  9. C. C. Wang,Phys. Rev. 152 (1966) 149–156.

    Google Scholar 

  10. F. Shimizu,J. Phys. Soc. Japan 22 (1967) 1070–1077.

    Google Scholar 

  11. S. A. Akhmanov andR. V. Khokhlov, “Problemy Nyelineynoy Optiki” (Akad. Nauk SSSR, Moscow, 1964);N. Bloembergen, “Nonlinear Optics” (W. A. Benjamin, New York, 1965).

    Google Scholar 

  12. J. A. Armstrong, N. Bloembergen, J. Ducuing, andP. S. Pershan,Phys. ReV. 127 (1962) 1918–1939.

    Google Scholar 

  13. S. Kielich,Proc. Phys. Soc. 86 (1965) 709–725.

    Google Scholar 

  14. Idem, Acta Phys. Polonica 29 (1966) 875–898.

    Google Scholar 

  15. J. A. Giordmaine,Phys. Rev. 138 (1965) A1599–1606.

    Google Scholar 

  16. P. M. Rentzepis, J. A. Giordmaine andK. W. Wecht,Phys. Rev. Lett. 16 (1966) 792–794.

    Google Scholar 

  17. N. V. Cohan andH. F. Hameka,J. Chem. Phys. 45 (1966) 3825–3826.

    Google Scholar 

  18. H. Rabin andP. B. Bey,Phys. Rev. 156 (1967) 1010–1016;162 (1967) 794–800.

    Google Scholar 

  19. H. J. Simon andN. Bloembergen,Phys. Rev. 171 (1968) 1104–1114.

    Google Scholar 

  20. S. A. Akhmanov andV. I. Zharikov,JETP Lett. 6 (1967) 137–140;S. A. Akhmanov andR. V. Khokhlov,Usp. Fiz. Nauk. 95 (1968) 231–247.

    Google Scholar 

  21. S. Kielich,Phys. Lett. 25A (1967) 517–518;Acta Phys. Polonica 35 (1969) 861–862.

    Google Scholar 

  22. P. W. Atkins andL. D. Barron,Proc. Roy. Soc. A.304 (1968) 303–317;A. 306 (1968) 119–134.

    Google Scholar 

  23. S. Kielich,Proc. Phys. Soc. 90 (1967) 847–858.

    Google Scholar 

  24. J. G. Kirkwood,J. Chem. Phys. 5 (1937) 479–491.

    Google Scholar 

  25. R. H. Terwiel andP. Mazur,Physica 30 (1964) 625–664.

    Google Scholar 

  26. W. J. A. Maaskant andL. J. Oosterhoff,Molecular Physics 8 (1964) 319–344.

    Google Scholar 

  27. G. H. A. Cole, “The Statistical Theory of Classical Simple Dense Fluids” (Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1967).

    Google Scholar 

  28. M. Smoluchowski,Ann. Phys. 25 (1908) 205–226.

    Google Scholar 

  29. Y. R. Shen andY. J. Shaham,Phys. Rev. 163 (1967) 224–231.

    Google Scholar 

  30. S. Kielich,Acta Phys. Polonica 34 (1968) 1093–1104.

    Google Scholar 

  31. Idem, ibid. 30 (1966) 683–707;31 (1967) 689–713.

    Google Scholar 

  32. M. Takatsuji,Phys. Rev. 165 (1968) 171–177; Erratum172 (1968) 241.

    Google Scholar 

  33. S. Kielich,IEEE J. Quantum Electronics QE-4 (1968) 744–752.

    Google Scholar 

  34. A. D. Buckingham andB. J. Orr,Quarterly Reviews 21 (1967) 195–212.

    Google Scholar 

  35. H. G. Kubal andR. Gob,Z. Naturforschg. 22a (1967) 737–745;Z. physik. Chem. 62 (1968) 237–255.

    Google Scholar 

  36. G. H. Meeten,Trans. Faraday Soc. 64 (1968) 2267–2272.

    Google Scholar 

  37. S. H. Lin, C. Y. Lin, andH. Eyring,J. Phys. Chem. 70 (1966) 1756–1761.

    Google Scholar 

  38. M. Takatsuji,Phys. Rev. 155 (1967) 980–986.

    Google Scholar 

  39. N. Bloembergen andP. Lallemand,Phys. Rev. Lett. 16 (1966) 81–84;N. Bloembergen,Am. J. Phys. 35 (1967) 989–1023.

    Google Scholar 

  40. R. Pecora,J. Chem. Phys. 50 (1969) 2650–2656.

    Google Scholar 

  41. Y. N. Chiu,ibid. 50 (1969) in the press.

    Google Scholar 

  42. S. Kielich,Acta Phys. Polonica 32 (1967) 405–419.

    Google Scholar 

  43. M. Paillette,C.R. Acad. Sci., Paris 267 B (1968) 29–31.

    Google Scholar 

  44. A. P. Veduta andB. P. Kirsanov,Zh. Eksperim i Teor. Fiz. 54 (1968) 1374.

    Google Scholar 

  45. F. Gires, Thesis, Paris (1968).

  46. M. Paillette,C.R. Acad. Sci., Paris,267B (1968) 882–885.

    Google Scholar 

  47. R. G. Brewer andC. H. Lee,Phys. Rev. Lett. 21 (1968) 267–270.

    Google Scholar 

  48. B. Kasprowicz andS. Kielich,Acta Phys. Polonica 33 (1968) 495–498.

    Google Scholar 

  49. F. Kaczmarek,ibid,32 (1967) 1003–1022.

    Google Scholar 

  50. S. Kielich,Chem. Phys. Lett. 1 (1968) 675–677;J. Colloid Interface Sci. 27 (1968) 432–441;28 (1968) 214–218.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Molecular Physics, A. Mickiewicz University, Grunwaldzka 6, Poznań, Poland

    Stanisław Kielich

Authors
  1. Stanisław Kielich
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Additional information

A brief summary of the contents is to be found in the Review of the International Quantum Electronics Conference held at Miami on 14–17 May 1968, published inIEEE J. Quantum Electronics,QE-4 (1968) 330.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Kielich, S. Laser beam-induced non-linear effects in optically active media. Opto-electronics 1, 75–87 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01418100

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01418100

Keywords

Search

Navigation