Abstract
Incoherent subharmonic light scattering in isotropic media is a new kind of nonlinear light scattering, which involves single input photon and multiple output photons of equal frequency. We investigate theoretically the dependence of the subharmonic scattering intensity on the hyperpolarizability of molecules and the incident intensity using nonlinear optics theory similar to that used for Hyper-Rayleigh scattering and degenerate optical parametric oscillators. It is derived that the subharmonic scattering intensities grow exponentially or superexponentially with the hyperpolarizability of molecules and the incident intensity.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 575-578 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Spectrochimica Acta - Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue number | 4 |
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| State | Published - Feb 2005 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Isotropic media
- Nonlinear optics
- Subharmonic scattering