Experimental observation of chirped continuous pulse-train soliton solutions to the Maxwell-Bloch equations
Optics Express, Vol. 8, Issue 2, pp. 153-158 (2001)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.8.000153
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Abstract
A frequency chirped continuous wave laser beam incident upon a resonant, two-level atomic absorber is seen to evolve into a Jacobi elliptic pulse-train solution to the Maxwell-Bloch equations. Experimental pulse-train envelopes are found in good agreement with numerical and analytical predictions.
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OCIS Codes
(190.5530) Nonlinear optics : Pulse propagation and temporal solitons
(190.5940) Nonlinear optics : Self-action effects
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Focus Issue: Quantum control of photons and matter
History
Original Manuscript: November 22, 2000
Published: January 15, 2001
Citation
Shihadeh Saadeh, John Shultz, and Gregory Salamo, "Experimental observation of chirped continuous pulse-train soliton solutions to the Maxwell-Bloch equations," Opt. Express 8, 153-158 (2001)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-8-2-153
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