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Dynamics of ultrashort light pulses in a semiconductor superlattice in the presence of a magnetic field

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A system of equations that describes the propagation of ultrashort light pulses (optical solitons) in a semiconductor superlattice in the presence of a magnetic field is obtained using coupled Maxwell equations for the electromagnetic field and the Boltzmann equation written in the relaxation time approximation for the one-electron distribution function. It is shown that an initial linearly polarized light pulse induces a field with the orthogonal polarization in the sample. The dynamics of joint propagation of the initial and induced pulses in the sample is studied.

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Original Russian Text © M.B. Belonenko, 2009, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoĭ Fiziki, 2009, Vol. 35, No. 16, pp. 40–50.

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Belonenko, M.B. Dynamics of ultrashort light pulses in a semiconductor superlattice in the presence of a magnetic field. Tech. Phys. Lett. 35, 759–763 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063785009080203

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