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Ultra-short solitons and kinetic effects in nonlinear metamaterials

Pattern Formation and Solitons 2007-05-23 v1 Optics

Abstract

We present a stability analysis of a modified nonlinear Schroedinger equation describing the propagation of ultra-short pulses in negative refractive index media. Moreover, using methods of quantum statistics, we derive a kinetic equation for the pulses, making it possible to analyze and describe partial coherence in metamaterials. It is shown that a novel short pulse soliton, which is found analytically, can propagate in the medium.

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@article{arxiv.nlin/0601062,
  title  = {Ultra-short solitons and kinetic effects in nonlinear metamaterials},
  author = {M. Marklund and P. K. Shukla and L. Stenflo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nlin/0601062},
  year   = {2007}
}

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6 pages, 2 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. E