Abstract
Chirality is equivalent to the lack of mirror planes in a molecule or a material. In linear optics, chiral molecules give rise to optical-activity effects; i.e., the interaction with left-and right-hand circularly polarized light is different. Such effects exist also in nonlinear optics. For example, second-harmonic generation (SHG) from chiral, isotropic surfaces is sensitive to the handedness of incoming circularly polarized light.1
© 1998 Optical Society of America
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