KERR-EFFECT OF SOME NEW ORGANIC KERR SOLUTIONS

The electro optic Kerr constant of many new organic solutions comprisi ng of tile substituted aromatic carbonyl and nitrile compounds as solu tes in nitrobenzene, for various molar concentrations of the solutes h as been measured. We found several solutions hating Kerr constants gre ater than that of nitrobenzene. The interactions bet seen the componen ts in these solutions have been established to be dipole-dipole in nat ure for the first time by conducting experiments and measuring the dip olemoments for solutions of various molar concentrations. The variatio ns of the dipole moment with concentration in many solutions have been found to follow the same trend of variations of Kerr constant with mo lar concentration.