Measurement of the vector character of electric fields by optical second-harmonic generation
- 1 August 1999
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 24 (15) , 1059-1061
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.24.001059
Abstract
We present a scheme for the determination of the vector nature of an electric field by optical second-harmonic generation. We demonstrate the technique by mapping the two-dimensional electric-field vector of a biased transmission line structure on silicon with a spatial resolution of .
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