Formation and propagation of coupled ultraslow optical soliton pairs in a cold three-state double- Λ system

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

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Huang, Guoxiang ^a,b   Jiang, Kaijun ^b   Payne, M G ^b   Deng, L ^b  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PHASE MODULATION; SOLITONS; STANDARDS;

CROSS-PHASE MODULATION EFFECTS; HIGHLY RESONANT ATOMIC MEDIUM; SOLITON PAIRS; THREE STATE DOUBLE- Λ SYSTEM;

OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 33646757511     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.73.056606     Document Type: Article

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