Light propagation in dense resonant media: intrinsic optical bistability, solitons, and transients

Anatoly A. Afanas'ev; V. I. Reshetnyak; R. A. Vlasov; Vasily M. Volkov; O. K. Khasanov; Olga M. Fedotova; D. V. Gorbach; T. V. Smirnova

doi:10.1117/12.475899

24 July 2002 Light propagation in dense resonant media: intrinsic optical bistability, solitons, and transients

Anatoly A. Afanas'ev, V. I. Reshetnyak, R. A. Vlasov, Vasily M. Volkov, O. K. Khasanov, Olga M. Fedotova, D. V. Gorbach, T. V. Smirnova

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Proceedings Volume 4751, ICONO 2001: Nonlinear Optical Phenomena and Nonlinear Dynamics of Optical Systems; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.475899
Event: XVII International Conference on Coherent and Nonlinear Optics (ICONO 2001), 2001, Minsk, Belarus

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The intrinsic optical bistability, soliton formation, and transient phenomena such as the free polarization decay and photon echo in dense resonant media are investigated, taking into account the short-range dipole-dipole interaction of atoms.

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Anatoly A. Afanas'ev, V. I. Reshetnyak, R. A. Vlasov, Vasily M. Volkov, O. K. Khasanov, Olga M. Fedotova, D. V. Gorbach, and T. V. Smirnova "Light propagation in dense resonant media: intrinsic optical bistability, solitons, and transients", Proc. SPIE 4751, ICONO 2001: Nonlinear Optical Phenomena and Nonlinear Dynamics of Optical Systems, (24 July 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.475899

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