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| Huang, CG; Zhang, YZ; Huang, CG , Chinese Acad Sci, Inst High Energy Phys, POB 918, Beijing 100039, Peoples R China. | |
| Negative group velocity and distortion of a pulse in an anomalous dispersion medium | |
| Source Publication | JOURNAL OF OPTICS A-PURE AND APPLIED OPTICS
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| Keyword | Light-pulse Propagation |
| Abstract | Analysis of an infinitely long train of sine-squared pulses-as a toy model-propagating in a medium exhibiting anomalous dispersion shows that although the shape of the light pulses seems to be almost preserved on a small scale, the pulses are severely distorted on a large scale. The frequency of the sine-squared pulses is doubled before they propagate a tenth of the width (FWHM) of a pulse in the medium. The analysis and a numerical calculation show that the front of a wave with a step-function envelope propagates at the speed of light, c, through a medium with two gain lines. Finally, the propagation of a Gaussian pulse-a more realistic pulse-in a medium exhibiting anomalous dispersion is studied. The distortion of the pulse in a Wang-Kuzmich-Dogariu (WKD) experiment (Wang L J, Kuzmich A and Dogariu A 2000 Nature 406 277) should be observable at a precision of +/-1 ns. If a Gaussian pulse travels in the medium for 1150 of a width (FWHM), it will collapse. 'Snapshots' of a Gaussian pulse show that the shape of the pulse in space will have more than one peak at certain times. A possible picture of light propagation in WKD-like experiments is proposed on the basis on these findings. |
| 2002 | |
| ISSN | 1464-4258 |
| Volume | 4Issue:3Pages:263-270 |
| Subject Area | Physics |
| Indexed By | SCI |
| Citation statistics | |
| Document Type | 期刊论文 |
| Identifier | http://ir.itp.ac.cn/handle/311006/13524 |
| Collection | 理论物理所科研产出_SCI论文 |
| Corresponding Author | Huang, CG , Chinese Acad Sci, Inst High Energy Phys, POB 918, Beijing 100039, Peoples R China. |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Huang, CG,Zhang, YZ,Huang, CG , Chinese Acad Sci, Inst High Energy Phys, POB 918, Beijing 100039, Peoples R China.. Negative group velocity and distortion of a pulse in an anomalous dispersion medium[J]. JOURNAL OF OPTICS A-PURE AND APPLIED OPTICS,2002,4(3):263-270. |
| APA | Huang, CG,Zhang, YZ,&Huang, CG , Chinese Acad Sci, Inst High Energy Phys, POB 918, Beijing 100039, Peoples R China..(2002).Negative group velocity and distortion of a pulse in an anomalous dispersion medium.JOURNAL OF OPTICS A-PURE AND APPLIED OPTICS,4(3),263-270. |
| MLA | Huang, CG,et al."Negative group velocity and distortion of a pulse in an anomalous dispersion medium".JOURNAL OF OPTICS A-PURE AND APPLIED OPTICS 4.3(2002):263-270. |
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