Random polarization dynamics in a resonant optical medium.

نویسندگان

  • Katherine A Newhall
  • Ethan P Atkins
  • Peter R Kramer
  • Gregor Kovačič
  • Ildar R Gabitov
چکیده

Random optical-pulse polarization switching along an active optical medium in the Λ configuration with spatially disordered occupation numbers of its lower energy sublevel pair is described using the idealized integrable Maxwell-Bloch model. Analytical results describing the light polarization-switching statistics for the single self-induced transparency pulse are compared with statistics obtained from direct Monte Carlo numerical simulations.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Optics letters

دوره 38 6  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2013