Abstract
We modify the well-known photothermal beam deflection technique to study ultrafast nonlinearities. Using phase-sensitive detection we directly measure the temporal and polarization dynamics of nonlinear refraction (NLR) with sensitivity to optically induced phase changes of approximately . We use the relative polarization dependence of excitation and probe to separate the isotropic and reorientational components of the NLR.
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