Sum-Frequency Generation in Chiral Liquids near Electronic Resonance
- 24 August 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 87 (11), 113001
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.87.113001
Abstract
We demonstrate experimentally that visible-visible sum-frequency generation in the bulk of a chiral liquid is observable near electronic resonant transitions. Although the process is electric dipole allowed, it is rather weak because the orientational average over molecules effectively reduces the bulk chiral nonlinearity.Keywords
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