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Spin-induced optical second harmonic generation in the centrosymmetric magnetic semiconductors EuTe and EuSe
B Kaminski1, M Lafrentz, R V Pisarev
1Experimentelle Physik 2, Technische Universität Dortmund, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany.
Abstract:
Spectroscopy of the centrosymmetric magnetic semiconductors EuTe and EuSe reveals spin-induced optical second harmonic generation (SHG) in the band gap vicinity at 2.1-2.4 eV. The magnetic field and temperature dependence demonstrates that the SHG arises from the bulk of the materials due to a novel type of nonlinear optical susceptibility caused by the magnetic dipole contribution combined with spontaneous or induced magnetization. This spin-induced susceptibility opens access to a wide class of centrosymmetric systems by harmonics generation spectroscopy.
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