Journal of Statistical Physics, Vol. 39, Nos. 5/6, 1985. p. 615-620.
Solitons have recently been observed in stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) (details about the experiments and the identification of solitons may be found in Refs. 1 and 2). In this paper we shall discuss certain aspects con-
cerning the propagation of solitonlike excitations through a finite medium in the presence of coherence decay, and for optical pulses of finite duration...