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The variation in the velocity of propagation of a narrowband frequency-modulated pulse in a nonlinear medium with dispersion of gain or absorption is studied. It is shown that the self-phase modulation caused by a cubic nonlinearity of the Kerr type can “accelerate” optical pulses of a Gaussian shape up to superluminal velocities even in the case where an initial frequency modulation (chirp) is absent.
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