On-resonance material fast light
arXiv:1804.06227 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.97.063830
Abstract
We theoretically revisit the problem of the propagation of coherent light pulses through a linear medium when the carrier frequency of the pulses coincides with the minimum of a narrow dip in the medium transmission. Considering realistic contrasts between the maximum and minimum transmission of the medium and incident pulses of strictly finite duration, we combine temporal and spectral approaches to obtain analytical expressions of the transmitted pulse that reproduce the main features of the exact numerical solutions derived by fast Fourier transform. A special attention is paid to the advance of the pulse maximum over that of a pulse covering the same distance in vacuum and the ratio of this advance to the pulse duration (fractional advance) is optimized.
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