Thermally induced and Kerr-induced optical nonlinearities of a pseudoisocyanine solution at 532 nm
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The thermally induced and Kerr-induced nonlinearities of a pseudoisocyanine (PIC) aqueous solution were studied using 532 nm radiation. The thermally induced negative nonlinear refraction of 8 ns pulses was investigated by the pulse waveform analysis technique. The nonlinear refractive index of PIC was measured using the Z-scan technique to be γ = −6 × 10−12 cm2 W−1. It was shown that saturated absorption dominates over nonlinear refraction in this spectral range. A comparison with previously reported data of nonlinear optical characteristics of PIC solution measured using femtosecond pulses has shown the influence of additional mechanisms responsible for the increase of γ in the case of nanosecond pulses.