TY - CONF KW - Dielectric mirrors KW - Infrared lasers KW - Laser amplifiers KW - Laser beams KW - Nonlinear absorption KW - Optical components AU - Guan Gui AU - Amitava Adak AU - Manika Dandapat AU - Daniel Carlson AU - Drew Morrill AU - Henry Kapteyn AU - Margaret Murnane AU - Chen-Ting Liao AB - We experimentally characterized an unexpectedly-strong nonlinear response in dispersive dielectric multilayer mirrors below the known damage threshold. We observed a strong reflectivity decrease, local heating, transient spectral modifications, and time-dependent absorption of the incident pulse. BT - Frontiers in Optics / Laser Science DA - 2020-11 N2 - We experimentally characterized an unexpectedly-strong nonlinear response in dispersive dielectric multilayer mirrors below the known damage threshold. We observed a strong reflectivity decrease, local heating, transient spectral modifications, and time-dependent absorption of the incident pulse. PB - Optical Society of America PY - 2020 EP - JW6A.18 T2 - Frontiers in Optics / Laser Science TI - Strong optical nonlinearities in dispersive dielectric chirped mirrors below the damage threshold UR - http://www.osapublishing.org/abstract.cfm?URI=FiO-2020-JW6A.18 ER -