  In this paper, the detection of a small reflector in a randomly heterogenous
medium using second-harmonic generation is investigated. The medium is
illuminated by a time-harmonic plane wave at frequency omega. It is assumed
that the reflector has a non-zero second-order nonlinear susceptibility, and
thus emits a wave at frequency two omega in addition to the fundamental
frequency linear scattering. It is shown how the fundamental frequency signal
and the second-harmonic signal propagate in the medium. A statistical study of
the images obtained by migrating the boundary data is performed. It is proved
that the second-harmonic image is more stable with respect to medium noise than
the one obtained with the fundamental signal. Moreover, the signal-to-noise
ratio for the second-harmonic image does not depend neither on the second-order
susceptibility tensor nor on the volume of the particle.
