Abstract

We propose a scheme to generate vector optical solitons in a four-level active-Raman-gain medium. We show that this scheme, which is fundamentally different from that using optical fibers and that via electromagnetically induced transparency, is capable of achieving robust vector optical solitons with superluminal propagating velocity. We demonstrate that such vector optical solitons can be generated at room temperature and with very low light intensity. We investigate also the interaction between two superluminal vector optical solitons and point out that their elastic and inelastic colliding properties can be used to design rapidly responding optical soliton switching and logic gates.

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