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The local electric field has been derived analytically inside multilayer metallic films with weak nonlinearity, and hence the effective linear dielectric constant and third-order nonlinear susceptibility of the layered structures are calculated. As the number of layers increases, the comparison with the previous results of graded metallic films shows a gradual transition from sharp peaks to a broad continuous band. These results give further evidence of the emerging absorption band reported recently [J. P. Huang and K. W. Yu, Appl. Phys. Lett. 85, 94 (2004)]. Thus, multilayer metallic films can serve as optical materials with a giant enhancement of optical nonlinearity and a large figure of merit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The authors theoretically exploit a class of nonlinear optical materials, which are made of single domain ferromagnetic nanoparticles coated by a nonmagnetic nanoshell with an intrinsic second-harmonic generation (SHG) susceptibility in a nonmagnetic host fluid. The SHG of such materials possess magnetic-field controllabilities, i.e., magnetic-field-controllable anisotropy, redshift, and enhancement, which are caused to appear by the shift of a resonant plasmon frequency due to the formation of the chains of the coated nanoparticles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We theoretically exploit a class of colloidal-crystal-based nonlinear optical materials, which are made of graded metallodielectric nanoparticles suspended in a host fluid. Such materials can have both an enhancement and a redshift of optical nonlinearity, due to the gradation inside the nanoparticles as well as the lattice effects arising from the periodic structure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]