NONLINEAR OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF SOLIDS: ENERGY CONSIDERATIONS

Abstract

It is shown that the interaction between macroscopic, nondissipative media, and time-varying electromagnetic fields can be described by a time-averaged potential function. From this function it is possible to phenomenologically derive the tensors that describe any of the usual electro- and magneto-optic effects for electric and magnetic fields of any frequency. In addition, these same potential functions describe the various optical nonlinearities like harmonic generation in KDP, and harmonic generation by electric quadrupole and magnetic dipole nonlinearities. The symmetry relations first derived by Armstrong, Bloembergen, Ducuing, and Pershan for electric dipole nonlinearities follow directly from the methods presented here. In addition, one can derive analogous relations for electric quadrupole and magnetic dipole nonlinearities. These relations also demonstrate the reciprocal nature of the linear electro-optic effect and rectification of light. The Faraday effect and the production of a dc magnetization due to incident circularly polarized light are also reciprocal effects.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 14, 1962
Accession Number
AD0295763

Entities

People

  • P.s. Pershan

Organizations

  • Harvard University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Dielectric Permittivity
  • Dipole Moments
  • Electromagnetic Fields
  • Equations
  • Faraday Effect
  • Free Energy
  • Frequency
  • Government Procurement
  • Magnetic Dipoles
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Materials
  • Optical Phenomena
  • Optical Properties
  • Pockels Effect
  • Second Harmonic Generation
  • Steady State
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Optical Physics and Photonics.
  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics