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arXiv:physics/0605039

Comment on "Direct Observation of Optical Precursors in a Region of Anomalous Dispersion"

B. Macke, Bernard Ségard

Published May 4, 2006• 5 citations
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Abstract

We show that the optical transients recently read as "Sommerfeld-Brillouin precursors" by Jeong, Dawes and Gauthier are not identifiable with optical precursors (unless one considers that any coherent transient propagating in a dilute medium at the velocity c is an optical precursor) and that they can be interpreted in very simple physical terms.

DOI
10.48550/arxiv.physics/0605039

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Optical Sommerfeld-Brillouin precursors significantly ahead of a main field of comparable amplitude have been recently observed in an opaque medium with an electromagnetically induced transparency window [Wei et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 093602 (2009)]. We theoretically analyze in this article the somewhat similar results obtained when the transparency is induced by the propagating field itself and we establish an approximate analytic expression of the time delay of the main-field arrival, which fits fairly well the result obtained by numerically solving the Maxwell-Bloch equations.