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Physical Review A

Effect of chirp on final amplitudes of coherent optical pulses

Robert T. Deck, F. A. Hopf, George L. Lamb

Published Aug 1, 1976• 0 citations
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Abstract

We present the results of a computer experiment designed to investigate the effect of chirp on the amplitude of the solitons produced in resonant media by incident coherent optical pulses. Comparison is made to the predictions derived from higher conservation laws.
DOI
10.1103/physreva.14.886

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