Theory of polarization measurements of second-order nonlinear light scattering

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 104, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 3445-3456

  Kauranen, Martti ^a   Persoons, André ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; FREQUENCIES; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MOLECULES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; TENSORS;

HYPERPOLARIZABILITY; ISOTROPIC SOLUTIONS; KLEINMAN SYMMETRY; QUADRATIC ORIENTATIONAL AVERAGE; ROTATIONAL INVARIANTS;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

EID: 0030574809     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.471051     Document Type: Article

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