Matched Optical Solitary Waves for Three- and Five-Level Systems
- 7 November 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 73 (19), 2559-2562
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.73.2559
Abstract
Exact analytic results are presented that give a general solution for a pair of solitary waves which can propagate through a three- and a five-level system with their shapes invariant. These solitary waves vary widely in shape and form: from ones for which the pulses have similar shape to ones which have very different but "complementary" shapes. A general type of solitary-wave pair which is insensitive to small perturbations is identified.Keywords
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