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Anomalous refraction of an ultrashort light pulse at a nonlinear interface of dielectric media

Publication in Journal of Optical Technology

For Russian citation (Opticheskii Zhurnal):

Маймистов А.И., Габитов И.Р. Аномальное преломление ультракороткого импульса света на нелинейной границе раздела диэлектрических сред // Оптический журнал. 2015. Т. 82. № 11. С. 15–23.

Maymistov A.I., Gabitov I.R. Anomalous refraction of an ultrashort light pulse at a nonlinear interface of dielectric media [in Russian] // Opticheskii Zhurnal. 2015. V. 82. № 11. P. 15–23.

For citation (Journal of Optical Technology):

A. I. Maĭmistov and I. R. Gabitov, "Anomalous refraction of an ultrashort light pulse at a nonlinear interface of dielectric media," Journal of Optical Technology. 82(11), 727-733 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1364/JOT.82.000727

Abstract:

This paper discusses the refraction of an ultrashort pulse of an electromagnetic field at a nonlinear interface of dielectric media. The nonlinearity is caused by the presence of a thin film of resonance-absorbing atoms. When local-field effects are negligible, the system of model equations is completely integrable, and this makes it possible to find an exact solution. It is shown that the refracted pulse breaks up into several solitons, whose number depends on the angle of incidence.

Keywords:

optical solitons, thin film, two-level atoms, inverse-scattering problem method, refraction

Acknowledgements:

This study was carried out with the support of the Russian Scientific Foundation (Project No. 14-22-00098).

OCIS codes: 270.5530, 240.0310, 190.7110

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