Self-Induced Stimulated Light Scattering
- 4 July 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 61 (1) , 113-116
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.61.113
Abstract
The laser-induced collective rotation of molecules in a liquid crystal is treated as a novel stimulated light-scattering process in which the Stokes shift is not constant but is induced by a pump field. The solution following the usual coupled-wave approach appears as a nonlinear eigenvalue problem and exhibits bistable behavior.Keywords
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