Abstract

An algorithm has been developed that solves the semiconductor Maxwell-Bloch [1], without making the standard slowly-varying envelope (SVEA) and rotating-wave (RWA) approximations. This more exact formulation is applied to simulations of the propagation of ultrashort pulses for which the standard approximations reach their limits. This development was motivated by the generation of optical pulses as short as 8 fs, which has become possible due to recent progress in ultrafast technology.

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