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Le Journal de Physique Colloques

TRANSVERSE ON-RESONANCE RESHAPING IN COHERENT PROBE AND PUMP SOLITONS ASYMPTOTIC EVOLUTION IN A THREE-LEVEL SYSTEM

F. P. Mattar

Published Jun 1, 1988• 3 citations
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Abstract

The coherent frequency conversion between on-resonance pump and probe beams is examined in the physical situation where the medium nonlinearity balances the linear diffraction for each transition. Without diffraction neither soliton can occur. The paraxial-Maxwell Bloch formalism is adopted. To achieve optimally the energy transfer the pulse velocities must be equal to maintain maximum overlap throughout the propagation. The sequential evolution of probe soliton then pump soliton is reported in conjunction with pump depletion diffraction rigorously accounted for. Phase diagram of the pump and probe areas exhibit multi-value features.

DOI
10.1051/jphyscol:19882110

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The coherent energy transfer from a strong pump beam at a given frequency to a weak probe beam initiated by quantum noise at another frequency is reported. Effects of self‐ and cross‐phase modulation were also examined. An optimal energy exchange is maintained in the presence of fluctuations by matching the oscillators strengths to insure maximum pulse overlap throughout the motion. The central role of pump depletion, transverse effects, quantum initiation and time‐ and radial‐dependent phase variations in an asymptotic co‐propagation in a three‐level medium is revealed. An ensemble of statistical calculations is carried out. For most trajectories a stabilization of the pulse area is inhibited. Probe pulse sharpening and pump laser pulse peak retardation along with amplitude dimension, have been observed.
An effective two-level Maxwell-Bloch formalism is developed to describe various time-dependent phenomena in a three-level V-type system. The Maxwell-Bloch equations govern the temporal evolution of a probe field while a strong driving field is applied on the adjacent transition. The main assumption adopted throughout the paper is that the spontaneous decay rate on the coherently driven transition exceeds the decay rate on the probe transition as well as inverse time variations of both pulses. It is shown that the probe pulse interacts with such a medium in a manner similar to that in a self-induced transparency. An amplification without inversion of a relatively short probe pulse while propagating through an optically thick atomic medium is analyzed.