Abstract

Recent experiments^1,2 in the Rayleigh-wing region have shown that a broad peak with a maximum at ω₀ exists on the Stokes side of the stimulated light scattering profile (ω₀= 35 cm⁻² in CS₂). In CS₂-filled fibers, asymmetric broadening of as much as 600 cm⁻¹ of the input-laser line and the stimulated Raman line has been observed and has been called stimulated Kerr scattering.³ We report the observation of asymmetric broadening (>400 cm⁻¹) in liquid microdroplets of anisotropic molecules. We propose that the broadening is due to multiple orders of stimulated librational scattering (SIS).

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