Specifics of light scattering and optical anisotropy of boron oxide melt

Abstract

It is shown that the relaxation of the isotropic light scattering intensity by boron oxide melt, which is connected with a decrease in its magnitude after a temperature jump, is synchronized with the effect of changing the polarization state of the excitation light beam passed through the sample under investigation. The formation of macroscopic elastic stresses in the sample bulk could be one of the possible reasons for the development of the detected phenomenon.