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A special type of coherent interaction between electromagnetic radiation and matter leads to self-induced transparency and the propagation of pulses with a stable envelope in gaseous and condensed matter. This phenomenon can be thought of as the propagation of solitons, a special type of quasi-particles. Slusher[1] gave a survey of solitons in the volume case. Recently the possibility of the occurrence of surface wave pulses that reveal solitonlike properties was reported on[2,3].
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R. E. Slusher, in Progress in Optics, ed. E. Wolf (North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1974 ) Vol. XII, p. 55.
H.-E. Ponath and M. Schubert, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Lasers and Their Applications (Leipzig, 1981 ) p. 201.
V. M. Agranovich, V. I. Rupasov, V. Ya. Chernyak, Pism in JETF 33, 196 (1981).
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Ponath, HE., Schubert, M. (1984). On the Optical Soliton-Like Surface Phenomena in Dependence on Preparation Conditions of Matter. In: Mandel, L., Wolf, E. (eds) Coherence and Quantum Optics V. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0605-5_178
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