Index of refraction for an optical medium with clamped quantum

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作者
Eberly, JH
Rahman, A
Grobe, R
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[1] UNIV ROCHESTER,DEPT PHYS & ASTRON,ROCHESTER,NY 14627
[2] ILLINOIS STATE UNIV,DEPT PHYS,NORMAL,IL 61761
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.3687
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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In an adiabatic approximation for the simultaneous propagation of two optical pulses in a dielectric medium with clamped quantum phase, we reduce the Maxwell wave equation to a matrix equation with a non-Hermitian propagation kernel. Numerical simulations confirm novel consequences of an analytic solution that we identify as a two-photon-resonant propagation law.
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页码:3687 / 3690
页数:4
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