Few-cycle self-induced-transparency solitons

Journal Article · Fri Apr 15 04:00:00 EDT 2011 · Physical Review. A

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVA.83.043828· OSTI ID:21544714

Lin, Yuan Yao; Chen, I-Hong; Lee, Ray-Kuang ^[1]

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1. Institute of Photonics Technologies, National Tsing Hua University Hsinchu, Taiwan (China)

We reveal the existence of an optical self-induced-transparency soliton family in a two-level absorbing system down to the few-cycle limit. Based on the few-cycle envelope approximation, we introduce a systematical method of reducing the Maxwell-Bloch equations beyond the slowly varying envelope approximation and characterize the parameter space to achieve slow and fast lights. Verified by direct numerical simulations with full vectorial Maxwell-Bloch equations, we also give the relationships for a number of optical cycles on area theory and pulse group velocity, which demonstrate possible coherent photon-matter interactions.

• OSTI ID: 21544714
• Journal Information: Physical Review. A, Journal Name: Physical Review. A Journal Issue: 4 Vol. 83; ISSN 1050-2947; ISSN PLRAAN
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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