Organic materials are expected to have relatively strong nonlinear optical properties due to delocalized electrons at
It forms a number of salts with organic and inorganic acids showing non-linear optical properties.
L-Arginine maleate dihydrate (C6H14N4O2,C4H4O4,2H2O) is one of these L-arginine salts which is a complex of strongly basic amino acid, carboxylic acid and provides useful information in relation to molecular interaction in present-day biological systems and to prebiotic self-organisms.
[2] L-arginine maleate dihydrate crystals are grown from solution by solvent evaporation; they belong to the triclinic space group P1.
[3] They were applied for second-harmonic generation of an Nd:YAG laser (wavelength 1064 nm), and SHG efficiency equal to that of KDP has been obtained.