Self-induced transparency of very short optical pulses

Adam Kujawski, Joseph H. Eberly

C. T. Lee

Naohiro Tanno

P. N. Breaux, G. J. Salamo

F. P. Mattar, Maurice C. Newstein

N. V. Vysotina, Nikolai N Rozanov, Victor E. Semenov

The propagation of optical pulses in a waveguide containing atoms with resonant amplification and absorption has been analyzed. The possibility of amplification-based realization of a pulse compression regime similar to self-induced transparency has been demonstrated up to a duration comparable with the inverse frequency of the atomic transition (several femtoseconds) with a simultaneous increase in the peak amplitude.