Few-cycle solitons in a two-component medium

Hervé Leblond; Sergey V. Sazonov; Igor V. Mel'nikov; Dumitru Mihalache; François Sanchez

doi:10.1117/12.757851

1 August 2007 Few-cycle solitons in a two-component medium

Hervé Leblond, Sergey V. Sazonov, Igor V. Mel'nikov, Dumitru Mihalache, François Sanchez

Proceedings Volume 6785, ROMOPTO 2006: Eighth Conference on Optics; 67850Y (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.757851
Event: ROMOPTO 2006: Eighth Conference on Optics, 2006, Sibiu, Romania

Abstract

Using Maxwell-Bloch equations, we analyze the response of a two-component medium of two-level atoms driven by a two-cycle optical pulse beyond the traditional approach of slowly varying amplitudes and phases. We show that the notions of carrier, envelope, phase and group velocities can be generalized to this situation, and that for optical pulses of a given duration, the optical field can evolve into temporal few-cycle solitons.

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Hervé Leblond, Sergey V. Sazonov, Igor V. Mel'nikov, Dumitru Mihalache, and François Sanchez "Few-cycle solitons in a two-component medium", Proc. SPIE 6785, ROMOPTO 2006: Eighth Conference on Optics, 67850Y (1 August 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.757851

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