Second-harmonic generation with magnetic-field controllability

Opt Lett. 2009 Dec 15;34(24):3860-2. doi: 10.1364/OL.34.003860.

Abstract

Based on density functional theory with the generalized gradient approximation plus on-site Coulomb repulsion method, we study the magnetic-ordering dependence of second-harmonic generation (SHG) in a polar magnet BiCoO(3). The large second-order optical susceptibility, which can reach 3.7x10(-7) esu, exhibits a strong magnetic-ordering dependence, giving rise to magnetic-field controllable SHG response in polar magnets.