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Using time-resolved techniques, absorption recovery, and degenerate four-wave mixing, we directly observe the nonexponential intensity-dependent recombination of free carriers photoexcited in semiconductor-doped glasses. We assign this behavior to Auger recombination.

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Transmission measurements show a large decrease of the absorption saturation in semiconductor-doped glasses which have been exposed to intense absorbing light. A simple saturation model including nonradiative and Auger recombination and an unsaturable part of the absorption, interpreted as free-carrier absorption, explains the observed changes.