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Second harmonic generation (SHG) is a fundamental nonlinear optical phenomenon widely used both for experimental probes of materials and for application to optical devices. Even-order nonlinear optical responses including SHG generally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 Kazuaki Takasan , Takahiro Morimoto , Joseph Orenstein , Joel E. Moore

Nonlinear optical microscopy such as in the optical second-harmonic generation (SHG) modality has become a popular tool today for probing materials in the physical and biological sciences. While imaging and spectroscopy are widely used in…

We have studied on optical second harmonic generations (SHGs) from atomically thin MoTe2 flakes with 2H and 1T' phases. From 2H-MoTe2 samples with odd (even) numbers of layers, strong (negligible) SHGs are observed due to the…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-25 Yu Song , Ruijuan Tian , Jiulong Yang , Rui Yin , Jianlin Zhao , Xuetao Gan

Using symmetry arguments we show how optical second harmonic generation (SHG) can be used to detect antiferromagnetism at surfaces and in thin films. Based on the group theoretical analysis of the nonlinear electric susceptibility we…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Daehn , W. Huebner , K. H. Bennemann

Second-harmonic generation (SHG) is a direct measure of the strength of second-order nonlinear optical effects, which also include frequency mixing and parametric oscillations. Natural and artificial materials with broken…

This research will examine the computational methods to calculate the nonlinear optical process of second harmonic generation (SHG) that will be hypothesized to be present during lithium ion insertion into silicon nanowires. First it will…

Optics · Physics 2021-10-19 Donald C. Boone

Optical nonlinearity, especially the second harmonic generation (SHG), is generally weak in materials but has the potential to be applied in high-speed optical computers and energy-efficient artificial intelligence systems. In order to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-05 Junyi Shan

Second harmonic generation (SHG) is a coherent nonlinear phenomenon that plays an important role in laser color conversion. Lithium niobate (LN), which features both a large band gap and outstanding second-order nonlinearities, acts as an…

An optical Second-Harmonic Generation (SHG) allows to probe various structural and symmetry-related properties of materials, since it is sensitive to the inversion symmetry breaking in the system. Here, we investigate the SHG response from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-08 M. Vandelli , M. I. Katsnelson , E. A. Stepanov

Diffractive neural networks (DNNs) are an emerging approach for the realization of photonic artificial intelligence, especially due to their suitability for machine-vision applications and high-dimensional photonic information processing at…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-27 Marie Braasch , Anna Kartashova , Elena Goi , Thomas Pertsch , Sina Saravi

We derive an expression for the effective second-harmonic coefficient of a dilute suspension of coated spherical particles. It is assumed that the coating material, but not the core or the host, has a nonlinear susceptibility for…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 P. M. Hui , C. Xu , D. Stroud

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

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

Optical spectroscopy based on second-order nonlinearity is a critical technique for characterizing two-dimensional (2D) crystals as well as bioimaging and quantum optics. It is generally believed that second-harmonic generation (SHG) in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 Haoning Tang , Zhitong Ding , Tianyi Ruan , Zeyu Hao , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Haozhe Wang , Ali Javey , Feng Wang , Yuan Cao

We report optical second-harmonic generation (SHG) in reflection from GaSe crystals of 1 to more than 100 layers using a fundamental picosecond pulsed pump at 1.58 eV and a supercontinuum white light pulsed laser with energies ranging from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-10 Yanhao Tang , Krishna C. Mandal , John A. McGuire , Chih Wei Lai

The effective second-harmonic generation (SHG) coefficient is a crucial data that quantifies the efficiency of transforming fundamental frequency light into its second harmonic. With the help of the symmetry of nonlinear optical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Die Xiao , Yisheng Song

When the cornea becomes hydrated above its physiologic level it begins to significantly scatter light, loosing transparency and thus impairing eyesight. This condition, known as corneal edema, can be associated with different causes, such…

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…

Second harmonic generation microscopy (SHG) is a powerful imaging modality which has found applications in investigating both biological and synthetic nanostructures. Like all optical microscopy techniques, the resolution of SHG is limited…

Optical second harmonic generation (SHG) is used as a noninvasive probe of two-dimensional (2D) ferroelectricity in Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) films of copolymer vinylidene fluoride with trifluorethylene. The surface 2D…