Abstract
Materials with large optical nonlinearities and ultrafast response times are required for compact ultrafast al optical devices.1 However there is a trade-off for nonlinear optical materials in terms of sensitivity vs. speed.2 One can make use of the large nonlinearity near a resonance in a material but the response is typically relatively slow. Ultrafast nonlinearities can be obtained far from resonance, but these nonlinearities are quite small.
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