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When the incident light irradiates the surface or interface of a material, two photons with the same photon energy ћω interact with the material together and generate one new photon with the doubled photon energy of 2ћω, as shown in Fig. 69.1a.
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Hien, K.T.T., Mizutani, G. (2018). Optical Second-Harmonic Generation Spectroscopy and Microscopy. In: The Surface Science Society of Japan (eds) Compendium of Surface and Interface Analysis. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6156-1_69
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