Abstract
Optical Second Harmonic Generation (SHG) has been shown to be a very versatile and sensitive surface probe at interfaces between centrosymmetric media [1]. It derives its surface sensitivity from the dipole contribution that vanishes in the bulk but is allowed at symmetry breaking interfaces. Therefore, bulk contributions only arise from higher-order nonlocal terms, that are related to the gradients of the fields at an interface.
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