Skip to main content
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Sum-Frequency Generation in Chiral Liquids near Electronic Resonance

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters
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.
Research Organization:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Sponsoring Organization:
(US)
DOE Contract Number:
AC03-76SF00098
OSTI ID:
40277573
Report Number(s):
LBNL-48040
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Issue: 11 Vol. 87; ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
The American Physical Society
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

Similar Records

Sum-Frequency Generation from Chiral Media and Interfaces
Thesis/Dissertation · Sun Feb 12 23:00:00 EST 2006 · OSTI ID:877641

Circularly polarized infrared and visible sum-frequency-generation spectroscopy: Vibrational optical activity measurement
Journal Article · Fri Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 2004 · Physical Review. A · OSTI ID:20650290

Nonlinear spectroscopic studies of chiral media
Thesis/Dissertation · Thu May 20 00:00:00 EDT 2004 · OSTI ID:827581