Temperature, Wavelength, and Cell Geometry Effects on Scattering

This is in agreement with the experimental observation of Lister and Stinson.  

TEMPERATURE, WAVELENGTH, AND CELL GEOMETRY EFFECTS ON SCATTERING 

As experimentally observed by Chatelain, light scattering in the nematic phase is remarkably independent of the temperature vicinity to (i.e., independent of T - T), 

This temperature independence is also noted in nonlinear scattering involving the mixing of two coherent laser beams in nematic hquid crystals. The coherently scattered wave intensity is also shown to be proportional to Az lK and is thus independent ofT - T. 

The differential scattering cross sections given in Equations (5.21) and (5.31) allow us to deduce the optical wavelength dependence. Note that, basically, for nematics 

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TEMPERATURE, WAVELENGTH, AND CELL GEOMETRY EFFECTS ON SCATTERING 107 Substituting Equation (5.35) in Equation (5.34) gives... 

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