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Quasi-light Storage for Optical Data Packets
Published on: February 6, 2014
Chirped solitons as attractors for short light pulses
Marcus Neuer1, Karl H Spatschek, Zhonghao Li
1Institut für Theoretische Physik, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany.
Abstract:
Nonlinear chirped pulse solutions are shown to exist as stable attractors for short light pulses in driven and damped systems. The attractors are determined for systems of different complexity, from simple gain and damping modelings up to the inclusion of higher-order dispersion, Raman processes, and delayed nonlinear responses. The chirped attractors, their stability, as well as the attractor basins can be determined analytically. The analytical predictions are in excellent agreement with numerical simulations.
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