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We have studied the magnetic-dipole and electric-quadrupole contributions to second-harmonic generation (SHG) of centro-symmetric media. It can be shown that the phenomenological parameters α, β, γ can be arranged to form an effective\(\bar \chi _s^{(2)} \)-tensor, which describes dipole-forbidden SHG as the effect of a surface layer upon excitation with a single plane electromagnetic wave. An experimental technique is proposed allowing a determination of the usually very small γ term due to magnetic-dipole interaction using coherent compensation of its contribution by a coverage with an appropriate dye monolayer.
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Epperlein, D., Dick, B., Marowsky, G. et al. Second-harmonic generation in centro-symmetric media. Appl. Phys. B 44, 5–10 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00693977
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