Introducing an Extensible Open-Source Toolkit Suite for Studying Second Harmonic Generation: A Case Study of Depleted Pulsed Gaussian Wave SHG
Second Harmonic Generation (SHG) in nonlinear crystals has been extensively investigated, but most existing models still rely on simplifying assumptions. In realistic settings, thermal effects introduce complications that are difficult to capture analytically because the governing equations are highly coupled and nonlinear. Direct experimental characterization is also limited, since studying thermal effects would require spatiotemporal temperature data at every point in the crystal, which is not experimentally accessible. To address these limitations, we have developed a SHG Computational Toolkit Suite, a coordinated collection of independent modeling toolkits that cover different SHG scenarios under various physical conditions. Each toolkit focuses on a particular configuration or coupling mechanism, while the suite as a whole provides well-documented numerical implementations, reproducible workflows, and illustrative examples. Together, this article and the Toolkit Suite provide a coherent infrastructure for computational studies of SHG. It enables researchers to replicate, adapt, and extend our methods without duplicating foundational development efforts, thereby accelerating SHG research and promoting reproducibility.