Comment on ‘‘Relations between microscopic and macroscopic lowest-order optical nonlinearities of molecular crystals with one- or two-dimensional units’’

Authors

K.M. White, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Craig J. Eckhardt, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

December 1987

Comments

Published by Am Physical Soc. Phys. Rev. A 36, 5463 - 5464 (1987). Copyright 1987. Permission to use. http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRA/v36/p5463.

Abstract

An algebraic error in an earlier paper [J. Zyss and J. L. Oudar, Phys. Rev. A 26, 2028 (1982)] led to an interpretation regarding the desirable polarizability characteristics of a molecule for second-harmonic generation in crystals which is opposite to that actually desired. Optimum response is obtained from crystals comprised of molecules with significant in-plane polarizabilities.