Abstract

The Raman scattering process transfers energy from a laser beam into another beam of different frequency called the Stokes beam. For some applications one would like to inhibit this transfer so that for the time and length scale of interest the pump laser does not deplete. One way to accomplish that in principle is to use a train of so-called transient solitons. The purpose of this paper is to explore the properties of such pulse structures. We use cnoidal functions which have been shown to be exact solutions of the underlying, integrable system of equations with T₂ = ∞. We present also the behavior of such trains of soliton-like pulses in the non-ideal, T₂ ≠ ∞, case for different pulse widths and pulse separations.

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