Abstract: | The authors show the formation of slow temporal vector
optical solitons in a cold lifetime-broadened four-level inverted-Y
atomic system. We demonstrate that Maxwell’s equations for
describing two orthogonally polarised components of a low intensity
signal field can evolve into two coupled nonlinear Schr?dinger
equations, which results in various distortion-free temporal vector
optical solitons, such as bright-bright or dark-dark vector
solitons. These results are produced from the correct balance
between dispersion, self- and cross-phase modulation (SPM and XPM)
effects. We also show that the integrable Manakov model can be
realised by adjusting the corresponding SPM, XPM and dispersion
effects of this inverted-Y atomic system. |