Quantitative determination of electric and magnetic second-order susceptibility tensors of chiral surfaces
- 15 January 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 55 (4) , R1985-R1988
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.55.r1985
Abstract
We present a measurement technique to determine the relative values of all components of the three tensors that describe second-harmonic generation from chiral isotropic surfaces up to first order in the magnetic-dipole interaction. For a thin film of a chiral polymer, the largest tensor components involving magnetic interactions are nonvanishing only because of chirality and their magnitudes are ∼20% of the largest electric-dipole-only components. These chiral magnetic components are larger than the chiral electric component.Keywords
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