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Small-area ultrashort pulse propagation through a three-level medium

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Propagation of an ultrashort, small-area (circularly polarized) pulse through a gas medium of three-level atoms near one-photon resonance is studied. The expression for the propagating pulse shape is obtained within the rotating wave and dipole approximations. Results are compared, both analytically and numerically, with those for two-level model. Sinusoidal and Gaussian shapes of input pulses are compared, and a high sensitivity of modulation of the light pulse for envelope to its input shape is revealed.

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  1. Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia

    M. H. Hovhannisyan

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Original Russian Text © M.H. Hovhannisyan, 2013, published in Izvestiya NAN Armenii, Fizika, 2013, Vol. 48, No. 5, pp. 305–311.

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Hovhannisyan, M.H. Small-area ultrashort pulse propagation through a three-level medium. J. Contemp. Phys. 48, 200–204 (2013). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068337213050022

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