Phase sensitive and heterodyne-detected (HD) sum-frequency generation (SFG) spectroscopy offers the ability to separate the nonlinear susceptibility into its real and imaginary components. This provides information about the absolute orientation of molecules at interfaces while also producing an absorptive spectrum that is linear in spectral composition and can easily be decomposed into different spectral components. However, simultaneously obtaining phase accuracy and phase stability remains a challenge in SFG. Here we present a new experimental design for HD-SFG spectroscopy that incorporates a wedge pair to accurately control the timing between the local oscillator and the sample signal. This experimental approach provides high phase accuracy and long-time phase stability in a compact and flexible configuration.
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