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The performance of optical devices manufactured via laser micromachining on nonlinear transparent materials usually relies on three main factors, which are the characteristic laser parameters (i.e. the laser power, pulse duration and pulse repetition rate), the characteristic properties of host materials (e.g. their chromatic dispersions, optical nonlinearities or self-focusing features) and the relative importance of physical processes such as the avalanche impact ionization, multiphoton ionization and electron–hole radiative recombination processes. These factors act in conjunction to impose the regime of laser operation; in particular, their competition determines the appropriate laser operation regime. In this work a theoretical study is proposed to explore the effects of the competition between multiphoton absorption, plasma ionization and electron–hole radiative recombination processes on the laser dynamics in transparent materials with Kerr nonlinearity. The study rests on a model consisting of a K-order nonlinear complex Ginzburg–Landau equation, coupled to a first-order equation describing time variation of the electron plasma density. An analysis of the stability of continuous waves, following the modulational instability approach, reveals that the combination of multiphoton absorption and electron–hole radiative recombination processes can be detrimental or favorable to continuous-wave operation, depending on the group-velocity dispersion of the host medium. Numerical simulations of the model equations in the fully nonlinear regime reveal the existence of pulse trains, the amplitudes of which are enhanced by the radiative recombination processes. Numerical results for the density of the induced electron plasma feature two distinct regimes of time evolution, depending on the strength of the electron–hole radiative recombination processes.

a b s t r a c tA modified Metropolis atomistic simulation is proposed to model the structure of grain boundaries (GBs) and interfaces in ionic nanostructured systems and is applied to the magnetically interesting case of iron trifluoride (FeF 3 ). We chose long-range interatomic potentials adjusted on experimental results and adapted a previously established Monte Carlo scheme consisting of various modifications of the simulated annealing/Metropolis algorithm. Atomic structures of twisted and tilted GBs as a function of the relative disorientation of the grains have been achieved yielding close to experimentally measured properties. This approach takes into account the structure of the grains far from the interface in order to constrain the relative orientation of the grains, without any periodic boundary conditions. One concludes that a long-range Coulombic fall off of the interatomic potentials is necessary to obtain GB structures presenting a correct local topology but with a smooth transition from crystalline to amorphous states. The structural features are finally discussed in terms of topological aspects and local magnetic structure.