title: Sum-frequency generation in chiral liquids near electronic resonance.
abstract: We demonstrate experimentally that visible-visible sum-frequency generation in the bulk of a chiral liquid is observable near electronic resonant transitions. Although the process is electric dipole allowed, it is rather weak because the orientational average over molecules effectively reduces the bulk chiral nonlinearity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, 94720, USA.
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Belkin
authors.forename: S H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Han
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.forename: Y R
authors.initials: YR
authors.lastname: Shen