Resonant Optical Rectification in Chiral Molecular Systems: Application to a Three-Level Model |
| S. Woźniak Nonlinear Optics Division, Institute of Physics A. Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 85, 61-614 Poznań, Poland |
| Received: February 19, 1996; in final form: July 2, 1996 |
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| A molecular approach to optical rectification via the imaginary part of the second-order susceptibility related to electric dipole interaction with the radiation field is presented. A quantum-mechanical expression for the frequency dependence of the effect is obtained and its magnitude is estimated in absorption bands of a three-level model. |
| DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.90.519 PACS numbers: 33.55.Fi, 42.65.An |