Continuous-probe solutions for self-similar pulses in four-level systems

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 134041-134044

  Agarwal, G S ^a   Eberly, J H ^b  

^a PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

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39. We add that the question of pulse propagation in a system where the pulse can interact with several transitions at the same time is a very interesting one and is being numerically studied. Note that for this situation there are no analytical solutions even in the context of a simple A system.