Nonlinear optical properties of several lead galliate glasses, CdMnTe and CdMnSe
semiconductors, and SBN photorefractive crystals were studied in nanosecond and …

Summary form only given. Over the last few years there has been effort in making new
materials with large nonlinear refractive index (n/sub 2/) for ultrafast all-optical switching. In …

Glasses with large and fast nonresonant nonlinearities are promising materials for some all-
optical switching devices. These glasses are attractive materials because they combine …

Laser-induced grating spectroscopy was used to characterize the properties of three types of
materials with potential applications for optical limiting. Figures of merit were determined …

An Nd: glass laser system is described that enables smoothly varying the pulse duration of
single-frequency laser radiation in the range from 0.2 to 30 ns and focusing the beam to spot …

Over the last few years there has been great effort in making new materials with a large
nonlinear refractive index for ultrafast all-optical switching. 1–3 In particular, chalcogenide …

Transmission characteristics of a nonlinear Fabry-Perot interferometer containing Cd (S, Se)-
glasses were measured using laser pulses of 10 ns duration. The interferometer functioned …

Recently nonlinear optical properties of materials have been widely studied from the basic
and practical points of view. A femtosecond pulse laser is suitable for such studies because …

Photoinduced structural transformations in amorphous Sb2Se3–BaCl2–PbCl2 glasses were
studied using a differential IR spectroscopy Fourier technique in the spectral region between …

Third-harmonic generation(THG), optical Kerr shutter(OKS) and degenerate four-wave
mixing(DFWM) measurements clarified third-order nonlinear optical properties of …