Solitons in Stimulated Raman Scattering (Invited paper)

Heinz Steudel

Arthur Ronald Luimes, Kai J. Drühl

M.O. Baumgartner, Damien P. Scherrer, Fritz Kurt Kneubühl

A. E. Kaplan, P. L. Shkolnikov, B. A. Akanaev

We found conditions for excitation of bright-bright 2pi solitons in stimulated Raman scattering that involves nutation of population at Raman quantum levels, for two (laser-Stokes) and three (e.g., laser-Stokes-anti-Stokes) components. The soliton components at all participating frequencies are bright solitons of the same, Lorentzian, shape, in contrast to the well-known bright-dark soliton combination in stimulated Raman scattering.

John L. Carlsten, David C. MacPherson

Recently there has been considerable interest in the formation of solitons in three level systems,1 such as in Raman scattering.2-5 Solitons in stimulated Raman scattering were first predicted by Chu and Scott,6 but their experimental realization seemed remote because of the apparent necessity for particular pulse shapes for the polarization and fields. It is now clear that solitons do indeed form7 in SRS and that transiency plays a major role in their formation.

A. Laubereau