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Optics Letters

Multipulse quantum control: exact solutions

Elizabeth Groves, B. D. Clader, Joseph H. Eberly

Published Aug 14, 2009• 6 citations
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The coherent propagation of four optical pulses through a multilevel resonant medium is investigated theoretically. We present a self-consistent analytic solution without steady-state or adiabatic approximations and use numerical simulations to indicate that the analytic formulas can be used as a guide in an experimental setting.
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10.1364/ol.34.002539

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