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The third-order nonlinear optical properties of water-soluble Cu2-xSe nanocrystals are studied in the near infrared range of 700-980nm using a femtosecond pulsed laser by the Z-scan technique.It is observed that the nonlinear optical response of Cu2-xSe nanocrystals is sensitively dependent on the excitation wavelength and exhibits the enhanced nonlinearity compared with other selenides such as ZnSe and CdSe.The W-shaped Z-scan trace,a mixture of the reversed saturated absorption and saturated absorption,is observed near the plasmon resonance band of Cu2-xSe nanocrystals,which is attributed to the state-filling of free carriers generated by copper vacancies (self-doping effect) of Cu2-xSe nanocrystals as well as the hot carrier thermal effect upon intense femtosecond laser excitation.The large nonlinear optical response and tunable plasmonic band make Cu2-xSe nanocrystals promising materials for applications in ultra-fast all-optical switching devices as well as nonlinear nanosensors.