Abstract
Nonlinearities reported as self-focusing in exotic media such as green Chinese tea are identified as thermal self-defocusing. These large index changes can be used to study hysteresis, power-induced self-switching and cross-switching, the power-induced lensing effect, and other nonlinearities at interfaces.
© 1990 Optical Society of America
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