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Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics & Materials

SOLITON-LIKE PROPAGATION IN BIEXCITON TWO-PHOTON RESONANT REGION

Masaru Sakai, K. Sano, Hideyuki Kunugita, Kazuhiro Ema

Published Mar 1, 2000• 6 citations
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Abstract

We performed sub-ps pulse-propagation experiments around the biexciton two-photon resonance in CuCl, and confirmed the soliton-like propagation of exciton–polariton pulses proposed by one of us [Phys. Rev. Lett.75, 224 (1995)]. In our scheme two-photon nonlinearity compensates exciton–polariton dispersion, and pulse propagate without distortion. We compared our results with the calculated ones and obtained a good agreement between them.

DOI
10.1142/s0218863500000066

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