TY - GEN AU - Humbert,Christophe AU - Noblet,Thomas AU - Humbert,Christophe AU - Noblet,Thomas TI - Recent Advances in Linear and Nonlinear Optics SN - books978-3-0365-4118-1 PY - 2022/// CY - Basel PB - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute KW - Information technology industries KW - bicssc KW - Computer science KW - symmetry breaking KW - chiral plasmonics KW - non-linear optics KW - plasmonic devices KW - plasmonic sensing KW - plasmonics KW - LSPR scattering KW - polarisation manipulation KW - metamaterials KW - Faraday effect (rotation) KW - magneto-optic Kerr effect (MOKE) KW - magnetoplasmonics KW - molecular orientation KW - spectral unmixing KW - infrared absorption KW - visible-infrared sum-frequency generation KW - Raman scattering KW - linear programming KW - centrosymmetry KW - spectroscopy KW - selection rules KW - infrared KW - Raman KW - sum-frequency generation KW - interfaces KW - molecules KW - nanoparticles KW - molecular aggregates KW - second harmonic generation KW - hyper rayleigh scattering KW - second harmonic scattering KW - light polarizatio KW - quantum dots KW - phenyl derivative KW - UV-Visible spectroscopy KW - sum-frequency generation spectroscopy KW - dipole-dipole interaction KW - polyoxometalates KW - donor/acceptor substituents KW - first hyperpolarizability KW - (time-dependent) DFT KW - n/a N1 - Open Access N2 - Sight is the dominant sense of mankind to apprehend the world at the earth scale and beyond the frontiers of the infinite, from the nanometer to the incommensurable. Primarily based on sunlight and natural and artificial light sources, optics has been the major companion of spectroscopy since scientific observation began. The invention of the laser in the early sixties has boosted optical spectroscopy through the intrinsic or specific symmetry electronic properties of materials at the multiscale (birefringence, nonlinear and photonic crystals), revealed by the ability to monitor light polarization inside or on the surface of designed objects. This Special Issue of Symmetry features articles and reviews that are of tremendous interest to scientists who study linear and nonlinear optics, all oriented around the common axis of symmetry. Contributions transverse the entire breadth of this field, including those concerning polarization and anisotropy within colloids of chromophores and metal/semiconducting nanoparticles probed by UV-visible and fluorescence spectroscopies; microscopic structures of liquid-liquid, liquid-gas, and liquid-solid interfaces; surface- and symmetry-specific optical techniques and simulations, including second-harmonic and sum-frequency generations, and surface-enhanced and coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopies; orientation and chirality of bio-molecular interfaces; symmetry breaking in photochemistry; symmetric multipolar molecules; reversible electronic energy transfer within supramolecular systems; plasmonics; and light polarization effects in materials UR - https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/5529 UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/84545 ER -