Abstract
We demonstrate the application of the homodyne mixing technique to surface second-harmonic generation. The technique is shown to have advantages for improving the signal-to-noise ratio for background and detector-noise-limited experiments, for providing real-time measurement of the phase and magnitude of the surface susceptibility, and for simultaneously supplying a normalization signal to cancel effects that are due to laser drift.
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