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We find strong self-defocusing in bacteriorhodopsin films in the near IR with powers in the tens of milliwatts. The defocused beam acquires a ring pattern because of spatial self-phase modulation. We also demonstrate efficient four-wave mixing with phase-conjugate reflectivities of 26%. We discuss the origin of this high nonlinearity.
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