Optical properties second harmonic generation

Vibrational sum-frequency spectroscopy (VSFS) is a second-order non-linear optical technique that can directly measure the vibrational spectrum of molecules at an interface. Under the dipole approximation, this second-order non-linear optical technique is uniquely suited to the study of surfaces because it is forbidden in media possessing inversion symmetry. At the interface between two centrosymmetric media there is no inversion centre and sum-frequency generation is allowed. Thus the asynunetric nature of the interface allows a selectivity for interfacial properties at a molecular level that is not inherent in other, linear, surface vibrational spectroscopies such as infrared or Raman spectroscopy. VSFS is related to the more common but optically simpler second harmonic generation process in which both beams are of the same fixed frequency and is also surface-specific. 

Barium sodium niobium oxide [12323-03-4] Ba2NaNb 02, finds appHcation for its dielectric, pie2oelectric, nonlinear crystal and electro-optic properties (35,36). It has been used in conjunction with lasers for second harmonic generation and frequency doubling. The crystalline material can be grown at high temperature, mp ca 1450°C (37). 

Lamberth, C. Murphy, D. M. Mingos, D. M. P. Second Harmonic Generation Properties of Some Coordination Compounds Based on Pentadionato and Polyene Ligands. In Organic Materials for Nonlinear Optics II Harm, R. A., Bloor, D., Eds. Royal Society of Chemistry London, 1991 pp 183-189. 

Nonlinear second order optical properties such as second harmonic generation and the linear electrooptic effect arise from the first non-linear term in the constitutive relation for the polarization P(t) of a medium in an applied electric field E(t) = E cos ot. 

Optical detection offers the most conventional technique to time-resolve the coherent phonons. It includes four-wave mixing [8], transient reflectivity [9,10] and transmission [7] measurements, as well as second harmonic generation (SHG) [15,32]. Coherent nuclear displacement Q induces a change in the optical properties (e.g., reflectivity R) of the crystal through the refractive index n and the susceptibility y,... 

Non-linear second-order optical properties such as second harmonic generation (SHG) and the linear electrooptic effect are due to the non-linear susceptibility in the relation between the polarization and the applied electric field. SHG involves the... 

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