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The generation of the second harmonic of femtosecond laser pulses in a bacteriorhodopsin solution has been experimentally studied for various wavelengths and polarization states of radiation at the fundamental frequency. The polarization properties of the effect are analyzed under various experimental conditions. The nature and properties of the signal are treated as the manifestation of a superposition of nonlinear optical effects of various orders (the second and the fourth). The second-order effects can have both an electric-dipole and a magnetic-dipole or electric-quadrupole character. In analyzing fourth-order processes, besides the direct electric-dipole contribution, the possibility of the participation of cascade processes at second-and third-order nonlinearities is also allowed.
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Zh. Éksp. Teor. Fiz. 112, 97–114 (July 1997)
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Balakin, A.V., Koroteev, N.I., Pakulev, A.V. et al. Polarization characteristics of the “forbidden” second optical harmonic of femtosecond laser pulses in a bacteriorhodopsin solution. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 85, 52–60 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.558315
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