Christof Hättig
Department of Chemistry, Århus University, DK-8000 Århus C, Denmark

Mol. Phys., 94 (1998) 455-460
(Received 12 December 1997; accepted 22 January 1998)

The frequency-dependence of experimentally-derived or point-wise ab initio calculated hyperpolarizability averages is often expanded up to fourth order in the frequencies using the dispersion formula X_||⁽ⁿ⁾(w₁;...,w_n) = X_||⁽ⁿ⁾(0) (1 + A w_L² + B w_L⁴ + O(w_i⁶) ) with w_L² = sum_i w_i², where the coefficient A is independent of the optical process. We derive an extension of this dispersion formula which is open ended in the powers of the frequencies, uses only process-independent coefficients, and involves a minimal number of terms per order. It is shown that the dispersion formula can be cast into a form where dispersion coefficients drop out in a systematic manner for optical processes involving static electric fields. We discuss how the concept of these dispersion formulas can be generalized to other hyperpolarizability components and exemplify this approach at the experimentally important components ß_{_|_} and ß_K of the first hyperpolarizability.

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