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The dream of the all-optical processing of information has motivated efforts over the past decade to create sensitive semiconductors that have large optical nonlinearities. Semiconductors have been the medium of choice in part because a well-developed materials technology has already been built around them. One can design semiconductor structures easily and predict their performance accurately.
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