Complex sine-Gordon Theory for Coherent Optical Pulse Propagation
arXiv:hep-th/9509120
Abstract
It is shown that the McCall-Hahn theory of self-induced transparency in coherent optical pulse propagation can be identified with the complex sine-Gordon theory in the sharp line limit. We reformulate the theory in terms of the deformed gauged Wess-Zumino-Witten sigma model and address various new aspects of self-induced transparency.
8 pages, in Latex