Study of Self-Defocusing in Binary Mixtures of Dioxane with Homologous Alcohols Using the Z-Scan Technique
摘要
In this work, we studied the effects of chain length on self-defocusing by employing homologous alcohols and dioxane in the binary mixture by using the z-scan technique. All these binary liquid mixtures showed self-defocusing effects when laser light was focused on them. We find that structural effects make a significant contribution to the self-defocusing effect of binary liquids. As the chain length increases, a lesser self-defocusing effect is seen in dioxane-alcohol binary liquid mixtures. The nonlinear refraction of the mixtures is studied by varying the volume fraction and molecular size of the alcohols. The results suggest that the self-defocusing effect in these mixtures can be tuned by adjusting the volume fraction and molecular size of the alcohol and that these mixtures have potential applications in all-optical switching and signal processing.