“…The two nonlinear interactions that can be determined in this fashion are the sample's nonlinear index of refraction and nonlinear absorption coefficient (Sheik-Bahae & Hasselbeck, 2000). To detect the nonlinear properties as the absorption coefficient and the nonlinear refractive index, there are two methods, each of which is calculated as one of them depending on the other : (i) The geometry in which a finite aperture is kept before the detector is known as a closed-aperture (CA) Z-scan; (ii) the geometry in which the aperture is removed to focus all the transmitted light into the detector is referred to as an open-aperture (OA) Z-scan (Costela et al, 1996;Hutchings, Sheik-Bahae, Hagan, & Van Stryland, 1992;Chari et al, 1996). The main principle of zscan technique is based on transforming the phase distortion to amplitude distortions during beam propagation (Sheik-Bahae, Said, & Van Stryland, 1989).…”