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Optics Communications

Volume 34, Issue 3, September 1980, Pages 488-490
Optics Communications

The Maxwell-Bloch equations for three-photon coherent absorption

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Abstract

The equations of ultra-short-pulse propagation by stimulated absorption and emission of three photons are presented, It is found that three photon self-induced transparency is impossible in principle.

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