Formation of Optical Subcycle Pulses and Full Maxwell-Bloch Solitary Waves by Coherent Propagation Effects

V. P. Kalosha and J. Herrmann
Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 544 – Published 19 July 1999
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Abstract

We demonstrated that optical subcycle pulses can be generated in dense media of two-level systems due to pulse splitting and reshaping of pulses of a few optical-cycles time duration. Novel features in the spectral signatures of the pulses are predicted, a large blueshift in the transmitted and a large redshift in the reflected pulse, which are explained by intrapulse four-wave mixing. Solitary propagation phenomena in the full Maxwell-Bloch equations beyond the limits of slowly varying envelope and rotating-wave approximations are observed, e.g., the formation of solitary half-cycle pulses and two-soliton pulses.

  • Received 25 November 1998

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.544

©1999 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

V. P. Kalosha* and J. Herrmann

  • Max-Born-Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Rudower Chaussee 6, 12489 Berlin, Germany

  • *Also at Institute for Nuclear Problems, Belarus State University, Minsk, Belarus. Email address: kalosha@mbi-berlin.de

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Vol. 83, Iss. 3 — 19 July 1999

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