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Spectral representation for the effective macroscopic response of a polycrystal: application to third-order non-linear susceptibility

S Barabash and D Stroud

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We extend the spectral theory used for the calculation of the effective linear response functions of composites to the case of a polycrystalline material with uniaxially anisotropic microscopic symmetry. As an application, we combine these results with a non-linear decoupling approximation as modified by Ma and co-workers, to calculate the third-order non-linear optical susceptibility of a uniaxial polycrystal, assuming that the effective dielectric function of the polycrystal can be calculated within the effective-medium approximation.


PACS

77.22.Ch Permittivity (dielectric function)

77.84.-s Dielectric, piezoelectric, ferroelectric, and antiferroelectric materials

42.65.An Optical susceptibility, hyperpolarizability

Subjects

Condensed matter: electrical, magnetic and optical

Optics, quantum optics and lasers

Dates

Issue 50 (20 December 1999)

Received 27 April 1999, in final form 3 September 1999



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