Nonlinear Optical Frequency Polarization in a Dielectric

Abstract

A perturbation calculation of optical frequency polarization quadratic in the Maxwell field is made for a dielectric in which the electrons are localized on units of the crystal. The result is expressed in a power series in $K〈r〉\sim {10}^{-3\mathrm{}}$ where $〈r〉$ is the size of the unit and $K$ is the wave number of the field. The term of zeroth order is the electric-dipole term which vanishes in a crystal with a center of symmetry. The term first order in $K〈r〉$ is separated into electric-quadrupole and magnetic-dipole contributions by introducing a special gauge for the electromagnetic potentials. Higher power terms are neglected.