Second-harmonic generation with magnetic-field controllabilities

The authors theoretically exploit a class of nonlinear optical materials, which are made of single domain ferromagnetic nanoparticles coated by a nonmagnetic nanoshell with an intrinsic second-harmonic generation (SHG) susceptibility in a nonmagnetic host fluid. The SHG of such materials possess magnetic-field controllabilities, i.e., magnetic-field-controllable anisotropy, redshift, and enhancement, which are caused to appear by the shift of a resonant plasmon frequency due to the formation of the chains of the coated nanoparticles.

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