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Optically Controlled Coherent Backscattering from a Water Suspension of Positive Uniaxial Microcrystals |
| SHI Fan, LI Wei, WANG Pi-Dong, LI Jun, WU Qiang, WANG Zhen-Hua, ZHANG Xin-Zheng** |
| MOE Key Laboratory of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics, TEDA Applied Physics School and School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300457 |
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SHI Fan, LI Wei, WANG Pi-Dong et al 2012 Chin. Phys. Lett. 29 014206 |
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Abstract Coherent backscattering of light from a water suspension of zirconium silicate microcrystals is experimentally studied. Optically controlled weak localization of photons is realized, which is due to the reorientation behaviors of positive uniaxial microcrystals induced by a linearly polarized pump beam. Because zirconium silicate particles are positive uniaxial microcrystals, their reorientation behaviors are contrary to negative ones. Our work widely extends the materials used in the light-controllable weak localization of photons.
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Received: 27 July 2011
Published: 07 February 2012
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(Wave propagation in random media)
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(Diffraction and scattering)
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(Optical properties of fluid materials, supercritical fluids and liquid crystals)
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