Spontaneous and stimulated scattering of light

Boris Peter Stoicheff

I. S. Burkhanov, Светлана Владимировна Кривохижа, Leonid L. Chaikov

A nonlinear growth of the light scattering intensity has been observed and the frequency shift of the spectral line of scattered light has been measured in light backscattered in suspensions of diamond and latex nanoparticles in water. The shift corresponds to the HWHM of the line of spontaneous scattering on particles. We may conclude that there exists stimulated concentration (diffusion) light scattering on variations of the particle concentration, which is also called the stimulated Mie scattering. In a fibre probe scheme, the growth of the shift of the scattered spectral line is observed with an increase in the exciting beam power. The variation of the frequency shift with an increase in the exciting power is explained by convection in liquid.

Valerii V Ragul'skii

Alexander Komech

Ashok Kumar, Partha Sarathi Gupta

The non-classical effect of squeezing of light in spontaneous Raman and stimulated Raman processes are investigated under a short-time approximation based on a fully quantum mechanical approach. A Raman process is looked upon as a two-photon and one-phonon interaction process. Squeezing in amplitude, amplitude squared and amplitude cubed have been investigated. The occurrence of squeezing is observed in the fundamental mode in spontaneous Raman and stimulated Raman scattering. The squeezing in a Stokes field is found to be dependent on squeezing of the initial pump field.