Solution of generalized optical Bloch equations by the method of matrix continued fraction
A numerical method is developed for solving the optical Bloch equations in the center-of-mass momentum space for a closed V system in a counterpropagating field configuration. The method consists of an iterative procedure based on the matrix continued fraction and a transformation by which the optical Bloch equations can be organized into the tridiagonal matrix recurrence form. (C) 2001 Academic Press.
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