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Second-harmonic generation at a silver-air interface was enhanced by a factor of 10⁴ by surface roughness. The local-field enhancement is believed to be responsible for the effect. An unusually broad luminescence background extending far beyond the anti-Stokes side of the second harmonic was also observed.
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Chen et al. (1981) studied this question.
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