Physics · Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics
A topic within Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Physics.
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P. A. Franken, A. E. Hill, C. W. Peters & G. Weinreich
Reports the first observation of second-harmonic generation, shining a ruby laser through quartz and finding a faint trace of ultraviolet light at exactly twice the input frequency, the experiment that founded nonlinear optics.
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Shows that at the light intensities a laser makes possible, a material's polarisation response stops being proportional to the field and starts mixing frequencies together, turning optics into a nonlinear science.
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