Transient Self-Focusing in a Nematic Liquid Crystal in the Isotropic Phase
- 11 March 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 32 (10) , 527-530
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.32.527
Abstract
We have made the first quantitative experimental study of transient self-focusing in a Kerr liquid by propagating -switched laser pulses in an isotropic nematic substance which has a long orientational relaxation time. Our results show good qualitative, and occasionally quantitative, agreement with the existing theoretical calculations.
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