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Optical second-harmonic generation (SHG) is studied for the confined geometry of a circular cylindrical waveguide or optical fiber. A model situation of high symmetry is considered where the material with nonlinear susceptibility is…

Optics · Physics 2013-09-17 B. U. Felderhof , G. Marowsky

Third-harmonic generation (THG) is a key nonlinear optical process for ultrafast imaging, terahertz (THz) signal generation, and symmetry-sensitive probes, often dominating in centrosymmetric materials where lower-order responses vanish.…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-09 Sanjay Sarkar , Debottam Mandal , Amit Agarwal

Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) have shown promise for various applications in optoelectronics and so-called valleytronics. Their operation and performance strongly depend on the stacking of individual layers. Here,…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-28 J. E. Zimmermann , B. Li , J. Hone , U. Höfer , G. Mette

The recently discovered two-dimensional (2D) layered semiconductor MoSi2N4 has aroused great interest due to its unique 2D material characteristics. In this Letter, we found that differences in the structural details for MoSi2N4 may lead to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Lei Kang , Zheshuai Lin

In this article, we present a $T$-matrix method for numerical computation of second-harmonic generation from clusters of arbitrarily distributed spherical particles made of centrosymmetric optical materials. The electromagnetic fields at…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-14 Ivan Sekulic , Jian Wei You , Nicolae C. Panoiu

Optical harmonic generation on excitons is found in ZnSe/BeTe quantum wells with type-II band alignment. Two experimental approaches with spectrally-broad femtosecond laser pulses and spectrally-narrow picosecond pulses are used for…

High-harmonic generation (HHG), a typical nonlinear optical effect, has been actively studied in electron systems such as semiconductors and superconductors. As a natural extension, we theoretically study HHG from electric polarization,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-10 Tatsuhiko N. Ikeda , Masahiro Sato

The selection rules of high harmonic generation (HHG) are investigated using three-dimensional time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT). From the harmonic spectra obtained with various real molecules and different forms of laser…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 Xi Liu , Xiaosong Zhu , Liang Li , Yang Li , Qingbin Zhang , Pengfei Lan , Peixiang Lu

The magnetoelectric (ME) effects are caused by interactions of the electrical and magnetic subsystems in a solid. Among the applications of ME effects, there are methods of magnetic reversal under the influence of an electrostatic field and…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-08 Bogdan Tanygin

We theoretically study high-order harmonic generation (HHG) from solid-phase systems in spatially inhomogeneous strong laser fields originated by resonant plasmons within a metallic nanostructure. The intensity of the second plateau in HHG…

Optics · Physics 2016-09-12 Tao-Yuan Du , Zhong Guan , Xiao-Xin Zhou , Xue-Bin Bian

We analytically investigate the effect of a non-centrosymmetric geometry in the optical second harmonic (SH) generation from a particle made of a centrosymmetric material, in the interior of which quadratic optical processes are suppressed.…

Optics · Physics 2019-03-27 Raksha Singla , W. Luis Mochán

A comprehensive analysis of second harmonic generation (SHG) in a diatomic zincblende crystal based on the Simplified Bond Hyperpolarizability Model (SBHM), Group Theory (GT) is presented. The third rank tensor between the two approaches…

The efficient optical second-harmonic generation (SHG) of two-dimensional (2D) crystals, coupled with their atomic thickness that circumvents the phase-match problem, has garnered considerable attention. While various 2D heterostructures…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-31 Wontaek Kim , Gyouil Jeong , Juseung Oh , Jihun Kim , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Sunmin Ryu

Type I and type II second harmonic generation (SHG) of a beam transformed by the conical refraction phenomenon are presented. We show that, for type I, the second harmonic intensity pattern is a light ring with a point of null intensity…

We investigate the high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in doped semiconductors. The HHG is simulated with the single-electron time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation (TDSE). The results show that the high-order harmonics in the second…

Optics · Physics 2017-11-22 Tengfei Huang , Xiaosong Zhu , Liang Li , Xi Liu , Pengfei Lan , Peixiang Lu

Raman spectroscopy and Second Harmonic Generation (SHG) are complementary, non-destructive techniques that provide rich and distinct insights into the structural and electronic properties of materials. Raman spectroscopy offers detailed…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-30 Volodymyr Multian , Luigi Bonacina , Jérémie Teyssier

We show that spatially structured radiation generates second harmonic in a two-dimensional system even if the system is homogeneous and isotropic. The effect originates from non-locality of electric response to structured electromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-23 A. A. Gunyaga , M. V. Durnev , S. A. Tarasenko

Second harmonic generation (SHG) is a non-linear optical process, where two photons coherently combine into one photon of twice their energy. Efficient SHG occurs for crystals with broken inversion symmetry, such as transition metal…

Bianisotropy is a powerful concept enabling asymmetric optical response, including asymmetric reflection, absorption, optical forces, light trapping, and lasing. The physical origin of these asymmetric effects can be understood from…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-07 Ehsan Mobini , Rasoul Alaee , Robert W. Boyd , Ksenia Dolgaleva

We study high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in model atoms driven by plasmonic-enhanced fields. These fields result from the illumination of plasmonic nanostructures by few-cycle laser pulses. We demonstrate that the spatial inhomogeneous…