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Recently novel nonlinear optical phenomenon, optical orientation of dipolar centers (OODC), was firstly predicted theoretically and then found experimentally. From the phenomenological point of view the OODC-effect can be considered as a kind of optical rectification and consequently observed in any noncentrosymmetric crystals. However, unlike the later it requires existence in a host crystal matrix some impurities or their associates having permanent dipolar moments and taking participation in electronic transitions induced by illumination of the crystal. In this report three aspects of the OODC-effect are discussed: phenomenology and a simple microscopic model of the effect; results of experimental observation of a macroscopic electric polarization in Bi12SiO20 crystal; and possible application of this phenomenon in different fields of ultrafast optoelectronics in particular for generation of ultrashort electric pulses and ultra-broadband terahertz pulses.
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Nippolainen, E., Grachev, A.I. & Kamshilin, A.A. Optical orientation of dipolar centers: Theory, experiment, application. Laser Phys. 19, 870–875 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1054660X0904046X
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