Spatial solitons in nonlinear left-handed metamaterials
Optics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We predict that nonlinear left-handed metamaterials can support both TE- and TM-polarized self-trapped localized beams, spatial electromagnetic solitons. Such solitons appear as single- and multi-hump beams, being either symmetric or antisymmetric, and they can exist due to the hysteresis-type magnetic nonlinearity and the effective domains of negative magnetic permeability.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0405031,
title = {Spatial solitons in nonlinear left-handed metamaterials},
author = {Ilya V. Shadrivov and Yuri S. Kivshar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0405031},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 pages, 5 figures