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We overview the properties of nonlinear guided waves and (bright and dark) spatial optical solitons in a periodic medium created by a sequence of linear and nonlinear layers. First, we consider a single layer with a cubic nonlinear response…

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We address (2+1)D surface solitons occurring at the interface between a linear medium and a nonlocal nonlinear medium whose nonlinear contribution to the refractive index has a initial value at the interface. We find that there exist stable…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-27 Zhiwei Shi , Huagang Li , Qi Guo

In this letter we investigate the propagation of nonlinear pulses along the free surface of flexible metamaterials based on the rotating squares mechanism. While these metamaterials have previously been shown to support the propagation of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Bolei Deng , Hang Shu , Jian Li , Chengyang Mo , Jordan R. Raney , Vincent Tournat , Katia Bertoldi

We find that diverse nonlinear waves, such as soliton, Akhmediev breather, and rogue waves (RWs), can emerge and interplay with each other in a two-mode coupled system. It provides a good platform to study interaction between different…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-23 Li-Chen Zhao , Jie Liu

We reveal that lattice interfaces imprinted in nonlocal nonlinear media support surface solitons that do not exist in other similar settings, including interfaces of local and nonlocal uniform materials. We show the impact of nonlocality on…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Victor A. Vysloukh , Lluis Torner

We analyze discrete surface modes in semi-infinite binary waveguide arrays, which can support simultaneously two types of discrete solitons. We demonstrate that the analysis of linear surface states in such arrays provides important…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-04-01 Mario I. Molina , Ivan L. Garanovich , Andrey A. Sukhorukov , Yuri S. Kivshar

We consider the scattering of electromagnetic waves by a left-handed cylinder -- i.e., by a cylinder fabricated from a left-handed material -- in the framework of complex angular momentum techniques. We discuss both the TE and TM theories.…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Stéphane Ancey , Yves Décanini , Antoine Folacci , Paul Gabrielli

We reveal the existence of a new type of surface electromagnetic waves supported by hyperbolic metasurfaces, described by a conductivity tensor with an indefinite signature. We demonstrate that the spectrum of the hyperbolic metasurface…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-24 O. Yermakov , A. Ovcharenko , A. Bogdanov , I. Iorsh , Yu. S. Kivshar

We consider the interaction of an electromagnetic field with a left-handed sphere, i.e., with a sphere fabricated from a left-handed material, in the framework of complex angular momentum techniques. We emphasize more particularly, from a…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-11-14 Stéphane Ancey , Yves Décanini , Antoine Folacci , Paul Gabrielli

We study trapping and propagation of a matter-wave soliton through the interface between uniform medium and a nonlinear optical lattice (NOL). Different regimes for transmission of a broad and a narrow soliton are investigated. Reflections…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-13 Fatkhulla Kh. Abdullaev , Ravil M. Galimzyanov , Marijana Brtka , Lauro Tomio

We present exact electromagnetic solitary pulses that can be experimentally obtained within nonlinear left-handed metamaterials. The effect of pulse decoherence on the modulation instability of partially incoherent electromagnetic waves is…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Marklund , P. K. Shukla , L. Stenflo , G. Brodin

Using a two-fluid approach, we consider the properties of relativistically nonlinear (arbitrary $a_0$), circularly polarized \EM\ waves propagating along magnetic field in electron-ion and pair plasmas. Dispersion relations depend on how…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-15 Maxim Lyutikov

In this work, we revisit the topic of surface waves on nonreciprocal plasmonic structures, and clarify whether strictly unidirectional surface plasmon-polaritons are allowed to exist in this material platform. By investigating different…

Optics · Physics 2019-04-30 S. Ali Hassani Gangaraj , Francesco Monticone

This paper presents an analytical study of TM-polarized surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) in nonlinear multi-layer structures containing graphene sheets. In the general structure, each graphene sheet has been sandwiched between two…

Whereas electromagnetic surface waves are confined to a planar interface between two media, line waves exist at the one-dimensional interface between three materials. Here we derive a non-local integral equation for computing the properties…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-23 S. A. R. Horsley , A. Dwivedi

We develop a weakly nonlinear model to study the spatiotemporal manifestation and the dynamical behavior of surface waves in the presence of an underlying interfacial solitary wave in a two-layer fluid system. We show that interfacial…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-07-29 Shixiao W. Jiang , Gregor Kovačič , Douglas Zhou

We analyze surface electromagnetic waves with hyperbolic dispersion supported at the interface between a semi-infinite isotropic medium and an effective uniaxial material. Apart from known types plasmons with hyperbolic dispersion curve,…

Optics · Physics 2015-08-04 Osamu Takayama , Andrei V. Lavrinenko

We study the propagation of surface polaritons in a left-handed curved slab, i.e. a curved slab made of a negative-refractive-index material. We consider the effects of the slab curvature on their dispersion relations and attenuations. We…

Optics · Physics 2010-07-14 Mounir Faddaoui , Antoine Folacci , Paul Gabrielli

We predict the existence of surface dark solitons at the interface between a self-defocusing nonlocal nonlinear medium and a linear medium. The fundamental and higher-order surface dark solitons can exist when the linear refractive index of…

Optics · Physics 2011-03-08 XingHui Gao , Luohong Zhou , ZhenJun Yang , Xuekai Ma , Daquan Lu , Wei Hu

We present a phenomenological approach to dispersion in nonlinear elasticity. A simple, thermomechanically sound, constitutive model is proposed to describe the (non-dissipative) properties of a hyperelastic dispersive solid, without…

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