LINEARLY POLARIZED PROBES OF SURFACE CHIRALITY

We present a new nonlinear optical technique to study surface chiralit y. We demonstrate experimentally that the efficiency of second-harmoni c generation from isotropic chiral surfaces is different for excitatio n with fundamental light that is +45 degrees and -45 degrees linearly polarized with respect to the p-polarized direction. (C) 1995 American Institute of Physics.