Dispersion of the Nonlinear Second-Order Optical Susceptibility of an Organic System:<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>p</mml:mi></mml:math>-Nitroaniline

Abstract

Measurements of the frequency dependence of the microscopic second-order nonlinear electronic susceptibility are reported for the organic system $p$-nitroaniline. The results are suitably described in terms of a theoretical microscopic mechanism involving highly charge-correlated electron states dominating the second-order nonlinear optical response of the system as presented in earlier theoretical calculations.