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Optical second harmonic generation in Yttrium Aluminum Borate single crystals (theoretical simulation and experiment)

Ali H Reshak1 email, S Auluck2 email, A Majchrowski3 email and IV Kityk4 email

1Institute of Physical Biology-South Bohemia University, Institute of System Biology and Ecology-Academy of Sciences – Nove Hrady 37333, Czech Republic

2Physics Department, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (UP) 247667, India

3Institute of Applied Physics, Military University of Technology, Kaliskiego 2, 00-908 Warsaw, Poland

4Institue of Physics, J. Dlugosz University Czestochowa, Al. Armii Krajowej 13/15, Czestochowa, Poland, and Department of Chemistry, Silesian University of Technology, ul. Marcina Strzody 9, PL-44100 Gliwice, Poland

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PMC Physics B 2008, 1:8doi:10.1186/1754-0429-1-8

Published: 17  March  2008

Abstract

Experimental measurements of the second order susceptibilities for the second harmonic generation are reported for YAl3(BO3)4 (YAB) single crystals for the two principal tensor components xyz and yyy. First principle's calculation of the linear and nonlinear optical susceptibilities for Yttrium Aluminum Borate YAl3(BO3)4 (YAB) crystal have been carried out within a framework of the full-potential linear augmented plane wave (FP-LAPW) method. Our calculations show a large anisotropy of the linear and nonlinear optical susceptibilities. The observed dependences of the second order susceptibilities for the static frequency limit and for the frequency may be a consequence of different contribution of electron-phonon interactions. The imaginary parts of the second order SHG susceptibility Math, Math, Math, and Math are evaluated. We find that the 2ω inter-band and intra-band contributions to the real and imaginary parts of Math show opposite signs. The calculated second order susceptibilities are in reasonable good agreement with the experimental measurements.

PACS Codes: 71.15. Mb; 71.15.-m

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