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The ultrabroad spectrum of few-cycle and especially subcycle pulses requires multiple energy levels in a medium to be properly considered in order to describe the pulse propagation effects. In this paper we go beyond the standard two-level or related few-level approximations and theoretically analyze the propagation of subcycle pulses in a nonequilibrium multilevel resonant medium. We specifically address the case of pulse durations, smaller than the periods of resonant transitions in a medium, where the appropriate analytical models can be provided, and assume accordingly a slow dissipation in the medium. We demonstrate a number of nonlinear phenomena, arising under such conditions, in particular the formation of stable subcycle dissipative solitons of various profiles in a nonequilibrium medium, including superluminal ones, as well as study possible scenarios of their collision.
Язык оригиналаанглийский
Номер статьи043540
Число страниц13
ЖурналPhysical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Том112
Номер выпуска4
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СостояниеОпубликовано - 24 окт 2025

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