Abstract
Suspensions of Au and Ag plasmonic nanoparticles, irradiated with 532-nm, ns-long pulses, exhibit nonlinear absorption, nonlinear scattering and saturable absorption. Laser-induced damage is suppressed by >100x when the solvent is toluene instead of water.
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