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Numerical experiments with optical pulses in V-type media
Optics Express
|April 28, 2009
Abstract:
We present the results of a series of numerical experiments on the propagation of pairs of coupled short optical pulses in media with inhomogeneous broadening. The main results apply to propagation in three-level media in the V configuration.
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