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second-harmonic light towards the detection apparatus (see Fig. 7.2). The detection<br />

apparatus is discussed in section 7.2.2.<br />

'vVe are able to probe a variety <strong>of</strong> nonlinear susceptibility elements <strong>of</strong> our samples<br />

by altering the polarization <strong>and</strong> the angle <strong>of</strong> incidence <strong>of</strong> the fundamental beam. \Ve<br />

used a zeroth order half-wave plate to rotate the polarization <strong>of</strong> the fundamental<br />

beam from horizontal to vertical. The angle <strong>of</strong> incidence <strong>of</strong> the fundamental light<br />

was altered by positioning the beam center away from the microscope objective a..xis.<br />

Light in the image plane is related to light in the back aperture plane <strong>of</strong> the objective<br />

by a Fourier transform. Thus, translations in the back aperture plane became new<br />

incidence angles in the focal plane. This is illustrated schematically in Fig. 7.3.<br />

G nfortunately. a trade <strong>of</strong>f exists between the angle <strong>of</strong> incidence <strong>and</strong> spot size in<br />

the focal plane. 'vVhen we operated the microscope at normal incidence. we filled the<br />

back aperture <strong>of</strong> the microscope objective to minimize the spot size in the focal plane.<br />

Translating the beam <strong>of</strong>f the objective axis necessitated reducing the beam size in the<br />

back aperture plane. Thus, the beam was focused at a non-normal angle <strong>of</strong> incidence<br />

but had a spot size larger than the normal incidence spot size. This trade <strong>of</strong>f between<br />

angle <strong>of</strong> incidence <strong>and</strong> spot size limited our measurements to an angle <strong>of</strong> incidence <strong>of</strong><br />

,,-,30 0 with a corresponding spot size <strong>of</strong> 15 jl.m.<br />

Our highly focussed Ti:Ah03 beam cannot be adequately described by a plane<br />

wave representation.<br />

In particular, we observed a nonzero isotropic SH response<br />

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