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We provide a correction to the values of reported in [Optica 1, 436 (2014) [CrossRef] ].
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An analysis of experiments included the contribution of the fused silica cuvette, resulting in an overestimate of the reported for carbon disulfide () [1]. Here we give the corrected values for by subtracting the measured total nonlinear refraction contribution of the empty cuvette from the data with it filled. The value obtained for of the fused silica cuvette (two 1 mm-thick walls) agrees with the accepted literature value [2]. The result of this correction on the beam deflection measurement is a value of for . We reproduce Figs. 4–6 with this correction and include the corrected Table 1. The data in Fig. 6(b) was corrected using the dispersion of of fused silica from [2]. The SOS model has also been re-fitted following Ref. [3], as shown in Fig. 6(b) and Table 2. While the model reproduces the trend, it underestimates by a factor of 2.4, which is most likely due to the neglect of higher-lying absorption bands.
Fig. 4. Comparison of Z-scan measurements using the Ti:sapphire (closed) and Nd:YAG laser system (open) at both 700 (black) and 1064 nm (green) and calculation using Eq. (17) (red curve) of of versus pulse width. Shaded region represents errors in response function from Table 1.
Fig. 5. Comparison of versus pulse width between Z-scan measurements with both Ti:sapphire (closed circles) and Nd:YAG (open circle) laser systems at 700 nm and calculated (red curve). The shaded region represents only relative errors that contribute to uncertainty. For long pulse widths, .
Fig. 6. (b) Z-scan measurements of NLR (black circles) for femtosecond pulses with noninstantaneous component subtracted, and (blue triangles). Curves represent the SOS model fit for 2PA (blue) and (black), which has been multiplied by a factor of 2.4.
Table 1. Fit Parameters of Third-Order Response of a
Table 2. Fit Parameters for SOS model of and of
Funding
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) (FA9550-10-1-0558); National Science Foundation (NSF) (ECCS-1202471, ECCS-1229563).
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