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Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2006 Oct;74(4):045601. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.74.045601. Epub 2006 Oct 16.

Voltage-controlled phase matching in quadrupole second-harmonic generation.

Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics

S V Lazarenko, A Kirilyuk, Th Rasing

Affiliations

  1. Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University Nijmegen, Toernooiveld 1, 6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands. [email protected]

PMID: 17155124 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.74.045601

Abstract

We have observed strong phase-matched (PM) quadrupole optical second-harmonic generation (SHG) from nematic liquid crystals that possess inversion symmetry. PM conditions were achieved for two configurations by voltage control of the molecular orientation and thus of the refractive indices. Quadrupole SHG was separated from electric-field-induced dipole-type SHG with the help of time-gated measurements in a pulsed electric field.

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