Maxwell’s equations

• Use the well known identities

• Make substitution to find

• This gives us

• General expression for the field arising from an oscillating polarisation

• RHS of equation is called the driving polarisation

• If P has a component at say 2w it will generate an electric field at frequency 2w

• The above equation is a complete description of the all of the nonlinear processes we will consider

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