Abstract

The four-wave mixing (FWM) of ultrashort optical pulses in a nonlinear medium with resonant transition has applications as optical phase-conjugation, nonlinear frequency conversion, and so on.¹ Results of FWM studies may be applied directly to description of the Raman scattering or two-wave propagation due to the isomorphism of the models. Formation of dense collections of solitons in the Raman scattering has been investigated by the several authors,^2-4 by use of the inverse scattering transform under specific initial conditions. Studies of the common case required another approach. Development of new methods of analysis of densely packed solitons and application to FM is a goal of this work.

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