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Vector π pulse soliton in coherent optical amplifiers

Elena V. Kazantseva, Andrei I. Maimistov, S. O. Elyutin, Stefan W. Wabnitz

Published May 1, 2007• 0 citations

Abstract

We found a novel type of vector soliton pulse in a medium with linear loss and nonlinear gain from the coherent resonant interaction of light with two-level atoms exhibiting a degenerate upper state.

DOI: 10.1109/qels.2007.4431601

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