We demonstrate a new design for a light-scattering microscope that is convenient to use and that allows simultaneous imaging and light scattering. The design is motivated by the growing use of thermal fluctuations to probe the viscoelastic properties of complex inhomogeneous environments. We demonstrate measurements of an optically nonergodic sample, one of the most challenging light-scattering...

When suspensions of Halobacterium halobium are exposed to bright light, the light-scattering properties of the bacteria change. This light-scattering response can produce a transmission decrease of about 1% throughout the red and near-infrared region. The action spectrum for the light-scattering response appropriately matches the absorption spectrum of bacteriorhodopsin. The response is elimina...

A dynamic light scattering apparatus was built with a HeNe laser; the beam incident on a sample of particles(microspheres of one or multiple diameters or casein undigested and digested) suspended in water scatters into a random pattern product of the coherent superposition of the outgoing waves scattered from the spheres. Because the spheres are in constant Brownian motion, the pattern randomly...

Hydrodynamics describes the low-frequency, long-wavelength behavior of a system that is disturbed from equilibrium. When a system is disturbed from equilibrium, some quantities and parameters decay very quickly back to their equilibrium state, while others take a long time to relax [1]. Con­ served quantities, such as particle number, momentum, and energy, take a long time to relax to equilibri...

During the Workshop Alexander Varfolomeev pointed out that light-by-light scattering at optical frequencies can be enhanced by use of a third laser beam [1]. Norman Kroll remarked that he had also considered this in the 60's [2]. Here we consider whether a 1-teraWatt laser, such as that built at U. Rochester for SLAC E-144 [3], could be used to perform such an experiment, and conclude that rate...