Optical Pulse and Pulse-Train Propagation in a Resonant Medium
- 14 April 1969
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 22 (15) , 760-762
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.22.760
Abstract
We derive analytic pulse and pulse-train solutions to the nonlinear coupled Maxwell-Schrödinger equations describing the propagation of shape-preserving ultrashort optical pulses in a resonant medium.Keywords
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