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Collision of two few-cycle optical pulses propagating in the medium of nonmetallic carbon nanotubes is described using joint solution of the Maxwell equations for the electromagnetic field and the Boltzmann equation for the electron subsystem.
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Belonenko, M.B., Lebedev, N.G. & Nelidina, E.N. Interaction of few-cycle optical pulses in nonmetallic carbon nanotubes. Phys. Wave Phen. 19, 39–42 (2011). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1541308X11010080
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