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Generation of Extremely Short Pulses upon Excitation of a Resonant Medium by a Superluminal Light Spot

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The possibility of generation of quasi-unipolar extremely short pulses (with a duration of several periods of field oscillations) is theoretically analyzed for the excitation of a circular, nonlinear, and resonant medium with a light spot. The light spot rotates along a circle with a velocity that exceeds the speed of light in vacuum, while particles of the medium are distributed uniformly along the circle. It is shown that, by introducing a delay in the form of a phase plate into the system, one can control the shape, the duration, and the amplitude of generated pulses.

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  1. St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia

    R. M. Arkhipov, D. O. Zhiguleva & M. V. Arkhipov

  2. ITMO University, St. Petersburg, 197101, Russia

    R. M. Arkhipov, A. V. Pakhomov & N. N. Rosanov

  3. Heinrich Heine University, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany

    D. O. Zhiguleva

  4. Vavilov State Optical Institute, St. Petersburg, 199053, Russia

    N. N. Rosanov

  5. Institute of Quantum Optics, Leibniz University Hannover, 30167, Hannover, Germany

    I. Babushkin

  6. Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, 194021, Russia

    N. N. Rosanov

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Original Russian Text © R.M. Arkhipov, D.O. Zhiguleva, A.V. Pakhomov, M.V. Arkhipov, I. Babushkin, N.N. Rosanov, 2018, published in Optika i Spektroskopiya, 2018, Vol. 124, No. 4, pp. 505–509.

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Arkhipov, R.M., Zhiguleva, D.O., Pakhomov, A.V. et al. Generation of Extremely Short Pulses upon Excitation of a Resonant Medium by a Superluminal Light Spot. Opt. Spectrosc. 124, 536–540 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0030400X18040033

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