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Optics Letters

Spatial Thirring-type solitons via electromagnetically induced transparency

Inbal Friedler, Gershon Kurizki, Oren Cohen, Mordechai Segev

Published Dec 15, 2005• 55 citations
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Abstract

We show that the giant Kerr nonlinearity in the regime of electromagnetically induced transparency in vapor can give rise to the formation of Thirring-type spatial solitons, which are supported solely by cross-phase modulation that couples the two copropagating light beams.
DOI
10.1364/ol.30.003374

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