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Dynamics of solitons in a three-level medium with linear birefringence

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The dynamics of ultrashort pulses in a three-level or degenerate two-level medium is studied in the framework of integrable systems of the Maxwell-Bloch equations for pulses with a duration much longer than or comparable with the inverse transition frequency, with allowance made for linear birefringence. Using soliton-type solutions, we study the effect of birefringence on soliton conversion for different initial populations of the levels.

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  1. Institute of Automatics and Electrometry, Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

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Translated from Optika i Spektroskopiya, Vol. 92, No. 5, 2002, pp. 804–812.

Original Russian Text Copyright © 2002 by Zabolotskiĭ.

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Zabolotskiĭ, A.A. Dynamics of solitons in a three-level medium with linear birefringence. Opt. Spectrosc. 92, 739–747 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1481141

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