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The standard self-induced transparency (SIT) phenomenon represents the lossless propagation of a long multicycle stable soliton in an absorbing two-level resonant medium, if the soliton's envelope area equals 2⁢𝜋 (2⁢𝜋 pulse). In this case, the leading half of the 2⁢𝜋 pulse excites the medium, while the trailing half completely brings the medium back to the ground state. In this work, we theoretically demonstrate an analogous phenomenon for subcycle pulses propagating in an arbitrary multilevel resonant medium. The duration of the obtained solitary pulses must be smaller than the periods of resonant transitions in the medium. The obtained subcycle solitary solutions first turn an initially unexcited multi-level resonant medium to excited levels and then fully return it back to the ground state.
Язык оригиналаанглийский
Номер статьи043544
Число страниц9
ЖурналPhysical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Том112
Номер выпуска4
DOI
СостояниеОпубликовано - 28 окт 2025

    Области исследований

  • Light-matter interaction, Ultrafast optics, Optical solitons

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