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Phase Dependence of Few-Cycle Pulsed Laser Propagation in a Two-Level Atom Medium |
XIAO Jian;WANG Zhong-Yang;XU Zhi-Zhan |
Laboratory for High Intensity Optics, Shanghai Institute of
Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800 |
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XIAO Jian, WANG Zhong-Yang, XU Zhi-Zhan 2002 Chin. Phys. Lett. 19 348-350 |
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Abstract The phase-dependent feature of few-cycle pulsed laser propagation in a resonant two-level atom medium is demonstrated by solving the full Maxwell-Bloch equations. Even in the perturbative region, the propagating carrier field and the corresponding spectra of few-cycle pulsed laser are sensitive to the initial phase due to the self-phase modulation. For the larger pulse area, the fact that the carrier-wave reshaping comes from the carrier-wave Rabi flopping is also responsible for this sensitivity, and the phase dependent feature is more evident.
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Keywords:
42.65.Re
42.50.Gy
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Published: 01 March 2002
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PACS: |
42.65.Re
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(Ultrafast processes; optical pulse generation and pulse compression)
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42.50.Gy
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(Effects of atomic coherence on propagation, absorption, and Amplification of light; electromagnetically induced transparency and Absorption)
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