{"title":"Nonlinear Optical Activity in Second-Harmonic Generation from a Chiral Surface","authors":"A. Persoons, T. Verbiest, M. Kauranen","doi":"10.1364/otfa.1993.pd.2","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We have observed that the efficiency of second-harmonic generation from a monolayer of chiral molecules depends on the handedness of the incoming fundamental beam. This circular-difference effect is observed both in reflection and transmission of the second-harmonic radiation. Analogous to linear optical activity, we show that these effects can be explained by including contributions of magnetic-dipole transitions to the second-order nonlinear susceptibility.","PeriodicalId":246676,"journal":{"name":"Organic Thin Films for Photonic Applications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Organic Thin Films for Photonic Applications","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1364/otfa.1993.pd.2","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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We have observed that the efficiency of second-harmonic generation from a monolayer of chiral molecules depends on the handedness of the incoming fundamental beam. This circular-difference effect is observed both in reflection and transmission of the second-harmonic radiation. Analogous to linear optical activity, we show that these effects can be explained by including contributions of magnetic-dipole transitions to the second-order nonlinear susceptibility.