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A description is given of some experimental results obtained using the photothermal deflection, the z-scanning and the pump-probe techniques for measuring the nonlinear part of the refractive index and of the absorption of several amorphous materials.
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Bertolotti, M. et al. (1997). Measurements of Third-Order Nonlinearities in Amorphous Materials. In: Andriesh, A., Bertolotti, M. (eds) Physics and Applications of Non-Crystalline Semiconductors in Optoelectronics. NATO ASI Series, vol 36. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5496-3_1
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