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Physical Review A

Solitons and four-wave mixing

Jay R. Ackerhalt, Peter W. Milonni

Published May 1, 1986• 46 citations
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Abstract

We develop the formalism for studying transient four-wave-mixing phenomena in a Raman medium, and apply it to the study of solitary-wave propagation. We consider the problems of second-Stokes generation, anti-Stokes scattering, and two-pump Raman scattering.
DOI
10.1103/physreva.33.3185

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