INDEX OF REFRACTION FOR AN OPTICAL MEDIUM WITH CLAMPED QUANTUM

Citation
Jh. Eberly et al., INDEX OF REFRACTION FOR AN OPTICAL MEDIUM WITH CLAMPED QUANTUM, Physical review letters, 76(20), 1996, pp. 3687-3690
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
76
Issue
20
Year of publication
1996
Pages
3687 - 3690
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1996)76:20<3687:IORFAO>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
In an adiabatic approximation for the simultaneous propagation of two optical pulses in a dielectric medium with clamped quantum phase, we r educe the Maxwell wave equation to a matrix equation with a non-Hermit ian propagation kernel. Numerical simulations confirm novel consequenc es of an analytic solution that we identify as a two-photon-resonant p ropagation law.