MaxwellBloch
MaxwellBloch is a Python package for solving the coupled Maxwell-Bloch equations describing the nonlinear propagation of near-resonant light through thermal quantised systems such as atomic vapours.
Above is an example solution for the propagation of a 4π pulse through a dense atomic vapour. The pulse immediately breaks up on entering the medium and the resultant pulses form two optical solitons each with a pulse area of 2π.
Documentation
Docs for the project are at maxwellbloch.readthedocs.io.
Install
I recommend using Conda environments.
You can create and activate an environment named mb with all the required
dependencies for MaxwellBloch with
conda create --name mb -c conda-forge python=3 numpy=1 scipy=1 qutip=4
conda activate mb
The MaxwellBloch package can then be installed from PyPI using
pip install maxwellbloch
More detailed installation instructions can be found in the docs along with many example problems.
Attribution
If you use MaxwellBloch for research, please use the following citation:
@misc{ogden2020maxwellbloch,
author = {Ogden, Thomas P.},
title = {{MaxwellBloch}: a Python package for solving the coupled
Maxwell-Bloch equations describing the nonlinear propagation of
near-resonant light through thermal quantised systems such as atomic
vapors.},
year = {2020},
publisher = {GitHub},
journal = {GitHub repository},
howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/tpogden/maxwellbloch}}
}
Changelog
See CHANGELOG.md.
License
MIT License. See LICENSE.txt.
1 maintainer
Metadata
1 maintainer
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