Abstract

The method of integral equations of molecular optics has been applied to nonlinear optics within the limits of conception of local (microscopic) field.¹ The cornerstone of that research was assumption that nonlinear polarization satisfies the wave equation, assuming that a number of strict limitations (e.q., plane pumping wave, plane interface between the media, approximation of a given field) are applied. This problem was solved² without such limitations but only for a nonmagnetic medium with dipole mechanism of nonlinearity. In this work quadrupole and magnetodipole orders are taken into account.

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