Formation and propagation of matched and coupled ultraslow optical soliton pairs in a four-level double-Λ system

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2005, Pages

  Deng, L ^a   Payne, M G ^a   Huang, Guoxiang ^a,b   Hagley, E W ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC SYSTEM; DRIVING CONDITIONS; PHOTON DETUNINGS; ULTRASLOW OPTICAL SOLITONS;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ATOMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

SOLITONS;

EID: 28844435390     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.72.055601     Document Type: Article

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