Abstract

We analyzed theoretically and studied experimentally the sum-frequency generation and four-wave-mixing processes under the noncollinear geometry of interaction in finite-length periodic photonic crystals. The efficiency of the surface and the bulk mechanisms of sum-frequency generation are compared. It is shown that surface and bulk mechanisms cannot be separated on the polarization of the sum-frequency signal only but that the angular dependencies of the sum-frequency signal intensity enable us to separate them. The excitation of inhomogeneous waves at the four-wave-mixing frequency of ${\omega }_3=2{\omega }_1-{\omega }_2$ is discussed and demonstrated.

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