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  • International Quantum Electronics Conference
  • OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1998),
  • paper QThF4

Light-polarization-induced optical activity in second-harmonic generation from isotropic achiral films

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Abstract

Chirality is equivalent to the lack of mirror planes in a molecule or a material. In linear optics, chiral molecules give rise to optical-activity effects; i.e., the interaction with left-and right-hand circularly polarized light is different. Such effects exist also in nonlinear optics. For example, second-harmonic generation (SHG) from chiral, isotropic surfaces is sensitive to the handedness of incoming circularly polarized light.1

© 1998 Optical Society of America

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