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Rotational anisotropy second harmonic generation (RA-SHG) is a nonlinear optical technique used to probe the symmetry of condensed matter systems. Measuring the dependence of the SHG susceptibility on one or more external parameters,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-08 Karna A. Morey , Bryan T. Fichera , Baiqing Lv , Zonqi Shen , Nuh Gedik

Valleytronics is rapidly emerging as an exciting area of basic and applied research. In two dimensional systems, valley polarisation can dramatically modify physical properties through electron-electron interactions as demonstrated by such…

This study presents an investigation of second harmonic generation (SHG) resulting from interaction of radially polarized laser beam propagating in homogeneous, unmagnetized plasma. Lorentz force and continuity equations have been used to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Shivani Aggarwal , Saumya Singh , Dinkar Mishra , Bhupesh Kumar , Pallavi Jha

The dispersion scan (d-scan) technique is extended to measurement of the timedependent polarization state of ultrashort laser pulses. In the simplest implementation for linearly polarized ultrashort pulses, the d-scan technique records the…

Strongly interacting two dimensional electron systems (2DESs) host a complex landscape of broken symmetry states. The possible ground states are further expanded by internal degrees of freedom such as spin or valley-isospin. While direct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-01 B. M. Hunt , J. I. A. Li , A. A. Zibrov , L. Wang , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , J. Hone , C. R. Dean , M. Zaletel , R. C. Ashoori , A. F. Young

The valley degree of freedom of electrons in materials promises routes toward energy-efficient information storage with enticing prospects towards quantum information processing. Current challenges in utilizing valley polarization are…

We present an analytical theory of second harmonic generation (SHG) in hybrid structures combining a nonlinear 2D crystal with a dielectric metasurface waveguide. The theory describes the excitation spectrum and enhancement of SHG at both…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-07 Egor S. Vyatkin , Sergey A. Tarasenko

Intense, single-cycle terahertz (THz) pulses offer a promising approach for understanding and controlling the properties of a material on an ultrafast time scale. In particular, resonantly exciting phonons leads to a better understanding of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-05 P. Bowlan , J. Bowlan , S. A. Trugman , R. Valdes Aguilar , J. Qi , X. Liu , J. Furdyna , M. Dobrowolska , A. J. Taylor , D. A. Yarotski , R. P. Prasankumar

Electrons in two-dimensional hexagonal materials have valley degree of freedom, which can be used to encode and process quantum information. The valley-selective excitations, governed by the circularly polarised light resonant with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-19 M. S. Mrudul , Álvaro Jiménez-Galán , Misha Ivanov , Gopal Dixit

Here we proposed the valley selective excitations via a two-color (\ensuremath{\omega} + \ensuremath{2\omega}) laser field, made by superimposing two linearly polarized pulses at frequencies \ensuremath{\omega} and \ensuremath{2\omega}. We…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-21 Arqum Hashmi , Shunsuke Yamada , Kazuhiro Yabana , Tomohito Otobe

Understanding the mechanisms and spatial correlations of crystallographic symmetry breaking in ferroelectric materials is essential to tuning their functional properties. While optical second harmonic generation (SHG) has long been utilized…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-10 Wei Li , Yunpeng Ma , Tianyi Feng , Sergei V. Kalinin , Jing-Feng Li , Qian Li

The polarization state of light plays a central role in strong-field light--matter interactions and is widely used to probe electronic structure in solids via high-order harmonic generation (HHG). In particular, helicity-resolved HHG has…

Since the first observation of second harmonic generation (SHG), there have been extensive studies on this nonlinear phenomenon not only to clarify its physical origin but also to realize unconventional functionalities. Nonetheless, a…

Chip-scale nonlinear optics enables strong light-matter interactions within compact devices, serving as a fundamental platform for multifunctional integrated photonics from classical optical signal processing to quantum information…

Optical second-harmonic generation (SHG) is a nonlinear parametric process that doubles the frequency of incoming light. Only allowed in non-centrosymmetric materials, it has been widely used in frequency modulation of lasers, surface…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-05 Wontaek Kim , Je Yhoung Ahn , Juseung Oh , Ji Hoon Shim , Sunmin Ryu

We investigate optical second-harmonic generation (SHG) from metasurfaces where noncentrosymmetric V-shaped gold nanoparticles are ordered into regular array configurations. In contrast to expectations, a substantial enhancement of the SHG…

Digital holography is an interference-based imaging technique capable of recording both the amplitude and phase of an electromagnetic field. It can be obtained at the laser illumination wavelength, but also with second-harmonic generation,…

Second-harmonic generation (SHG) is a powerful surface-specific probe for centrosymmetric materials, with broad relevance to energy and biological interfaces. Plasmonic nanomaterials have been extensively utilized to amplify this nonlinear…

The nonlinear processes of frequency conversion like second harmonic generation (SHG) usually obey certain selection rules, resulting from the preservation of different kind of physical quantities, e.g., the angular momentum. For SHG…

Optics · Physics 2020-04-09 Florian Spreyer , Ruizhe Zhao , Lingling Huang , Thomas Zentgraf

Polarized and azimuthal dependencies of optical second harmonics generation (SHG) at the surface of noncentrosymmetric semiconductor crystals have been measured on polished surfaces of ZnSe(100), using a fundamental wavelength of 1.06$\mu…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiangyang Song , Arnold Neumann , Rein Maripuu , Kai Siegbahn