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Experimental study on stimulated scattering of ZnO nanospheres dispersed in water

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The backward stimulated scattering (BSS) from ZnO nanospheres dispersed in water has been investigated experimentally by employing a Nd:YAG pulse laser with ~532 nm wavelength and ~8 ns pulse width as the pump laser source. The present results show that the BSS effect is uniquely and unequivocally different compared to other known stimulated scattering, such as stimulated Rayleigh scattering, stimulated Brillouin scattering, and stimulated Raman scattering, and it displays the characteristics of no frequency shift and threshold dependence on initial spontaneous Mie scattering seed source. These can be understood by means of the Mie scattering theory and a laser-induced stationary Bragg grating model.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants No. 41206084, No. 61177096, and No. 61465009) for financial support.

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  1. Jiangxi Engineering Laboratory for Optoelectronics Testing Technology, Nanchang Hangkong University, Nanchang, 330063, China

    Jiulin Shi, Haopeng Wu & Xingdao He

  2. School of Measuring and Optical Engineering, Nanchang Hangkong University, Nanchang, 330063, China

    Jiulin Shi, Haopeng Wu, Feng Yan, Junjie Yang & Xingdao He

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Shi, J., Wu, H., Yan, F. et al. Experimental study on stimulated scattering of ZnO nanospheres dispersed in water. J Nanopart Res 18, 23 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11051-016-3333-1

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