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Collisions of unipolar subcycle pulses in a nonlinear resonant medium that coherently interact with it are studied theoretically. The dynamics of spatial polarization structures and population difference that the pulses induce in the medium are analyzed. A surprising feature is that the medium is capable of “remembering” the result of the interaction with the pulses and their collisions during times comparable to the polarization relaxation time. An analysis of the dynamics of light-induced structures makes it possible to judge the parameters of subcycle pulses at the times longer than the pulse duration, which, in the future, can be useful in their detection.
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Original Russian Text © R.M. Arkhipov, M.V. Arkhipov, A.V. Pakhomov, I. Babushkin, N.N. Rosanov, 2017, published in Optika i Spektroskopiya, 2017, Vol. 123, No. 4, pp. 600–605.
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Arkhipov, R.M., Arkhipov, M.V., Pakhomov, A.V. et al. Collisions of unipolar subcycle pulses in a nonlinear resonantly absorbing medium. Opt. Spectrosc. 123, 610–614 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0030400X17100046
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