| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 46, Number 3, May I 1999
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 326 - 331 | |
| Section | Electromagnetism, optics, acoustics, heat transfer, classical mechanics, and fluid dynamics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i1999-00264-2 | |
| Published online | 01 September 2002 | |
Quantum self-induced transparency in frequency gap media
Department of Physics, University of Toronto -
Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A7 Canada
Received:
1
September
1997
Accepted:
11
February
1999
We study quantum effects of light propagation through an extended absorbing system of two-level atoms placed within a frequency gap medium (FGM). Apart from ordinary solitons and single-particle impurity band states, the many-particle spectrum of the system is shown to contain massive pairs of confined gap excitations and their bound complexes—gap solitons. Quantum gap solitons propagate without dissipation, and should be associated with self-induced transparency pulses in a FGM.
PACS: 42.50.Md – Optical transient phenomena: quantum beats, photon echo, free-induction decay, dephasings and revivals, optical nutation, and self-induced transparency / 42.50.Ct – Quantum description of interaction of light and matter; related experiments / 42.65.Tg – Optical solitons; nonlinear guided waves
© EDP Sciences, 1999
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