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OPTICAL PRECURSOR IN EXCITON RESONANT REGION

M. SAKAI, R. Nakahara, J. Kawase, Hideyuki Kunugita, Kazuhiro Ema

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We performed pulse-propagation experiments at the Z 3 -exciton resonance in CuCl and observed optical precursors. From the comparison between experimental results and numerical calculations, we obtained the conditions for a clear observation of a precursor in the propagation of a pulse with a finite spectral width.

DOI: 10.1080/10587260215314

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