Dispersion of linear and nonlinear optical properties of benzene: An <i>a</i> <i>b</i> <i>i</i> <i>n</i> <i>i</i> <i>t</i> <i>i</i> <i>o</i> time-dependent coupled-perturbed Hartree–Fock study

Abstract

Frequency-dependent polarizability α and second hyperpolarizability γ corresponding to various third-order nonlinear optical processes have been calculated by ab initio time-dependent coupled-perturbed Hartree–Fock method. The selection of proper diffuse functions in the basis set is made from a comparison of the calculated values of a(ω) at two optical wavelengths (λ=589 and 632.3 nm) and that of γ (−2ω; 0, ω, ω) at λ=1064 nm with the reported experimental values at these wavelengths. It is found that a 4-31G basis with a diffuse p and a diffuse d function, in addition to properly describing various elements, yields the values of α and γ which are, respectively, within 7% and 5% of the corresponding experimental results. The in-plane components of α show a larger frequency dispersion compared to the out-of-plane component. The calculated values of γ for the electric field-induced second harmonic generation (EFISH) at five optical wavelengths are within 5%–14% of the reported experimental results. However, a somewhat larger discrepancy between the calculated and measured values of γ for third harmonic generation (THG) and γ for degenerate four wave mixing (DFWM) is found. The order of the γ values for various third-order processes is γ(THG) &amp;gt;γ(EFISH) &amp;gt;γ(DFWM) &amp;gt;γ(EFIKE) ≊γ(EFIOR), where EFIKE and EFIOR, respectively, represent electric field-induced Kerr effect and electric field-induced optical rectification. The elements of γ show deviation from the Kleinman symmetry even at lower optical frequencies.