Magnetic-field-induced second-harmonic generation in semiconductor GaAs.
We show that application of a magnetic field induces optical second-harmonic generation (SHG) in GaAs. This phenomenon arises from field-induced symmetry breaking causing new optical nonlinearities. A series of narrow SHG lines is observed in the spectral range from 1.52 to 1.77 eV that we attribute to Landau-level quantization of the band energy spectrum. The rotational anisotropy of the SHG signal distinctly differs from that of the electric-dipole approximation. Model calculations reveal that nonlinear magneto-optical spatial dispersion that comes together with the electric-dipole term is the dominant mechanism for this nonlinearity.
Pavlov
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A. F. Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, The Russian Academy of Sciences, 194021 St. Petersburg, Russia.
Kalashnikova
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Pisarev
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Sänger
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Yakovlev
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Bayer
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