Abstract

It has recently been emphasized [1] that transparent glasses with large and fast (< 1ps) nonresonant nonlinearites may be a viable alternative to semiconductor and organic materials for certain photo–optic switching applications, including multi–GHz demultiplexing and highly parallel ‘pipeline’ calculations. We report results of measurements of high–index glasses that exhibit large values of χ₃.

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