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Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics Letters

Non-envelope formulation for femtosecond optical pulses in semiconductors

Igor V. Mel’nikov, DUMITRU BOGDAN MIHALACHE, Florin Moldoveanu, Nicolae Coriolan Panoiu

Published Mar 1, 1997• 14 citations
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Abstract

We analyze the response of an ensemble of 1 s -excitons driven by a femtosecond optical pulse, beyond traditional “slowly varying amplitudes” approach. For optical pulses of a given duration it is shown that the off-resonance optical field can evolve into a stable soliton with nonzero asymptotic behavior.
DOI
10.1134/1.567339

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