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Chinese Physics Letters

Propagation effect of coherent optical pulses in dissipative two-level system

JIANG MENG-HENG, Lin Fucheng

Published Jul 1, 1990• 0 citations
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Abstract

By means of the Bloch equations coupled with Maxwell equations, we treated the propagation effect of coherent optical pulses in dissipative two-level system. In such system we observed the special transient coherent phenomena which include the stair-like decrease of pulse area and periodic spatial oscillation of the ionized particles.
DOI
10.1088/0256-307x/7/7/003

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