LASER-INDUCED KERR-CONSTANTS FOR PURE LIQUIDS

During the past two decades an increasing number of publications have reported laser-induced birefringence data for pure liquids. To date there has been no comparative collection of values from these experiments. This paper lists the published values together with hitherto unpublished data of the authors of the optically induced Kerr constant B0. The normalized parameter B(rel) for data compared with benzene under stated wavelength conditions of the light used for the measurements is also given.