Phase Variation in Coherent-Optical-Pulse Propagation

Abstract

It is shown that the stipulation of lossless propagation provides sufficient asymptotic information on the pulse-propagation process to permit determination of both amplitude and phase of a class of coherent optical pulses ($2n\pi$ pulses, $n=0, 1, 2, \dots$) by the inverse method. Results for $n=1\mathrm{} \mathrm{and} 2$ are summarized.