Summary form only given. Recent advances in ultrafast laser technology have made possible the generation of extremely short and intense pulses with only two optical periods of less than 5 fs in duration in the visible region. Efforts for generation of still shorter pulses is motivated by the possibility to study light matter interactions under unique conditions as the pulse duration approaches the duration of a single optical cycle. We study the propagation of a 5-fs pulse through a layer of a dense medium of two-level systems. As a result we demonstrate the formation of single-cycle and half-cycle pulses in the sub-fs region and novel types of spectral changes during propagation as large blue and red shifts in the transmitted and reflected pulses, respectively, explained by intra-pulse frequency-difference mixing. Solitary pulse propagation phenomena beyond the limits of slowly-varying envelope (SVEA) and rotating-wave approximation (RWA) are illustrated as the formation of full Maxwell-Bloch half-cycle solitons and two-soliton pulses.


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    Title :

    Generation of optical sub-cycle pulses and full Maxwell-Bloch solitary waves by coherent propagation effects


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    Publication date :

    1999-01-01


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    265156 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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