Abstract

Recently there has been considerable interest in the formation of solitons in three level systems,¹ such as in Raman scattering.^2-5 Solitons in stimulated Raman scattering were first predicted by Chu and Scott,⁶ but their experimental realization seemed remote because of the apparent necessity for particular pulse shapes for the polarization and fields. It is now clear that solitons do indeed form⁷ in SRS and that transiency plays a major role in their formation.

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