Vol. 47, Issue 4, pp. 591-599

Abstract

Effect of viscosity of a liquid on the far-field diffraction pattern due to spatial self-phase modulation is investigated. Chlorophyll extract in acetone at different concentrations is used as the low viscous nonlinear samples and commercial engine oils, synthetic and natural. It is also used as high viscous media. In the case of chlorophyll solution, the self-induced diffraction ring pattern in the far-field is a series of circular rings at the beginning; but later it is transformed to half circular symmetry. But for the high viscous engine oils we have observed circular fringes and there is no time dependent structural variation in the pattern. The coefficient of the intensity dependent nonlinear refractive index for all the liquid samples is evaluated.