Propagation Effects in Superfluorescence

• Authors: R. Michalska-Trautman
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The evolution of a superfluorescent pulse is studied in the region of large sample lengths. A solution to the Maxwell-Bloch semiclassical equations is found by using the inverse scattering method. It has the form of a one-soliton solution with varying parameters. Dependence on the pulse width and the retarded time is found without further approximations. These parameters are shown to be independent of the inhomogeneous broadening time. Their values are in good agreement with experiment. Asymmetry of the pulse is also investigated.

Keywords

EN

42.65.Sf; 42.65.Tg

Discipline

• 42.65.Tg: Optical solitons; nonlinear guided waves(for solitons in fibers, see 42.81.Dp)
• 42.65.Sf: Dynamics of nonlinear optical systems; optical instabilities, optical chaos and complexity, and optical spatio-temporal dynamics

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 130
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 734-736

Dates

published

2016-09

received

2016-09-06

Contributors

author

R. Michalska-Trautman

• Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Aleja Lotnikow 32/46, PL-02668, Warsaw, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.130.734