Can materials act as a low pass filter for laser beams?

[m0022l]

There are materials which block laser beams (or light globally) or weaken its intensity via shading i.e. a beam must have crossed a specific energy barrier in order to pass this shading where beams with less energy will fade and won't pass. The question is, is there a material or a type of shading which does the opposite? Meaning that it blocks beams with intensities higher than a specific barrier and allows those with less intensities (behaving like a low pass filter somehow), does this type of material exist?!

 

[mfb]

i.e. a beam must have crossed a specific energy barrier in order to pass this shading where beams with less energy will fade and won't pass.

Are you thinking about nonlinear effects like saturation here?

I see an obvious issue for the opposite effect: If you weaken your high-intensity beam with some nonlinear effect, it becomes a low-intensity beam after a while (as no interaction will be point-like) and could pass.
Multi-photon processes depend on the beam intensity, but a beam with a higher intensity will keep a higher intensity, even if it is weakened more than a low-intensity beam.

 

[d3mm]

Is this a question about scifi shields? You can see though it, but it blocks laser?