Abstract
We report a theoretical analysis of nonlinear optical sum-frequency generation from the bulk of a chiral liquid in the dipole approximation. In our theoretical formulation the circular birefringence effect of a chiral medium was properly taken into account. The angular dependence of the reflected and transmitted sum-frequency signals on the incident angles of two input beams was calculated to yield the optimal geometry for probing bulk chirality. We also derived a microscopic expression for the totally antisymmetric part of a second-order nonlinear optical susceptibility to elaborate unique features in the studies of chirality-related properties with sum-frequency generation.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1698-1706 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue number | 6 |
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| State | Published - 1 Jan 1998 |