Optical Materials and Applications

3 Materials for NonlinearOptics

Toshihiro Arai (deceased) and Moriaki Wakaki

3.1 Basic Matters

3.2 Second Harmonic Generation (SHG), Sum Frequency Generation (SFG), and Difference Frequency Generation (DFG)

3.3 Materials for Nonlinear Optics

3.3.1 Single Crystals

3.3.2 Other Materials for the Second-Order Nonlinear Optics

3.4 Third-Order Nonlinear Optics

3.4.1 Basic Matters

3.4.2 Some of the Third-Order Nonlinear Phenomena

3.4.2.1 Four-Wave Mixing (FWM)

3.4.2.2 Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering (CARS)

3.4.2.3 Self-Focusing and Self-Divergence

3.4.3 Materials for the Third Nonlinear Optics

3.4.3.1 Organics

3.4.3.2 Complex Materials Dispersed with Metal-, Semiconductor-, and Organic Microcrystals

References

3.1 Basic Matters^1–7

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