Peculiarities of extremely short optical pulses propagation in carbon nanotube medium with nonlinear absorption

Abstract

In this paper, we study the propagation of extremely short electromagnetic pulses in a medium with zig–zag carbon nanotubes taking into account pumping and nonlinear absorption introduced phenomenologically. Based on Maxwell’s equations, we obtain an effective equation for the vector potential of the electromagnetic field, which takes into account the dissipation of the pulse field under the conditions of the piezoelectric effect associated with the vibrations of heavy nuclei of the medium, pumping by an external electromagnetic wave, and nonlinear absorption of carbon nanotubes. We demonstrate the stability of the electromagnetic pulse shape on a time scale that is significantly longer than the pulse duration but not exceeding the relaxation time.