Propagation of optical pulses through atomic media consisting of atoms with N transition levels and possessing the so-called Gell-Mann symmetry is studied. An analytic solution of the appropriate Maxwell-Bloch equations having the form of simultaneous different wavelength optical solutions is presented. The special case of N = 3 was known previously. Disciplines Physics Comments This paper was published in Journal of the Optical Society of America B and is made available as an electronic

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... with the permission of OSA. The paper can be found at the following URL on the OSA website: http://dx.Propagation of optical pulses through atomic media consisting of atoms with N transition levels and possessing the so-called Gell-Mann symmetry is studied. An analytic solution of the appropriate Maxwell-Bloch equations having the form of simultaneous different wavelength optical solitons is presented. The special case of N = 3 was known previously.