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Chinese Physics Letters

Coupled Optical Solitons for Pulse Propagation in Multi-Level Media

Guoxiang Huang, Jacob Szeftel

Published Mar 30, 2006• 0 citations
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Abstract

We investigate the shape-preserving propagation of N optical pulses in an ( N +1)-level medium. We solve Maxwell-Schrödinger equations exactly and provide several types of explicit coupled soliton solutions, which are temporally amplitude- and group-velocity-matched multi-mode slow-optical pulses of the system.
DOI
10.1088/0256-307x/23/4/021

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