Optical rectification, circular photogalvanic effect, and five-wave mixing in optically active liquids

Nikolai I. Koroteev

doi:10.1117/12.239748

6 May 1996 Optical rectification, circular photogalvanic effect, and five-wave mixing in optically active liquids

Nikolai I. Koroteev

Proceedings Volume 2796, ICONO '95: Fundamentals of Laser-Matter Interaction; (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.239748
Event: International Conference on Coherent and Nonlinear Optics, 1995, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

Abstract

A phenomenological analysis is carried out of novel nonlinear optical processes taking place in macroscopically noncentrosymmetric isotropic solutions of chiral (lift-ring mirror asymmetric) macromolecules, which are the primary elements of living organisms and their metabolic products. Among the most interesting and potentially useful for spectroscopic purposes are: optical rectification/photogalvanic effects consisting in electrostatic field/direct electrical current generation in such liquids under irradiation with the intense circularly polarized laser beam and the five-wave mixing phase-matched process of BioCARS to selectively record, background-free, vibrational spectra of chiral molecules.

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Nikolai I. Koroteev "Optical rectification, circular photogalvanic effect, and five-wave mixing in optically active liquids", Proc. SPIE 2796, ICONO '95: Fundamentals of Laser-Matter Interaction, (6 May 1996); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.239748

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