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We have made the first quantitative experimental study of transient self-focusing in a Kerr liquid by propagating Q-switched laser pulses in an isotropic nematic substance which has a long orientational relaxation time. Our results show good qualitative, and occasionally quantitative, agreement with the existing theoretical calculations.
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Wong et al. (1974) studied this question.
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