Near dipole-dipole effects on the propagation of few-cycle pulse in a dense two-level medium

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 5913-5924

  Xia, Keyu ^a   Gong, Shangqing ^a   Liu, Chengpu ^a   Song, Xiaohong ^a   Niu, Yueping ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

CARRIER-ENVELOPE PHASE; LOCAL FIELD CORRECTION (LFC); RABI FREQUENCY; SOLITARY PULSE;

MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

EID: 24144450574     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.005913     Document Type: Article

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