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It has been suggested1,2 that a liquid suspension of non spherically shaped particles could provide a novel artificial nonlinear medium sensitive to light polarization due to the fact that reorientational torques act on the particles. Alignement effects and a consequently birifringence are thus to be expected. Moreover, the response time of the obtained nonlinearity should be much shorter than the one measured in isotropic artificial media.
© 1988 Optical Society of America
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