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View SchemaNonlinear left-handed metamaterials
| Authors | Ilya V. Shadrivov, Alexander A. Zharov, Nina A. Zharova, Yuri S. Kivshar |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0410243 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0410243 |
| DOI | 10.1029/2004RS003191 |
| Journal | Radio Sci. 40, RS3S90 (2005) |
Abstract
We analyze nonlinear properties of microstructured materials with negative refraction, the so-called left-handed metamaterials. We demonstrate that the hysteresis-type dependence of the magnetic permeability on the field intensity allows changing the material properties from left- to right-handed and back. Using the finite-difference time-domain simulations, we study wave transmission through the slab of nonlinear left-handed material, and predict existence of temporal solitons in such materials. We demonstrate also 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.
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"abstract": "We analyze nonlinear properties of microstructured materials with negative\nrefraction, the so-called left-handed metamaterials. We demonstrate that the\nhysteresis-type dependence of the magnetic permeability on the field intensity\nallows changing the material properties from left- to right-handed and back.\nUsing the finite-difference time-domain simulations, we study wave transmission\nthrough the slab of nonlinear left-handed material, and predict existence of\ntemporal solitons in such materials. We demonstrate also that nonlinear\nleft-handed metamaterials can support both TE- and TM-polarized self-trapped\nlocalized beams, spatial electromagnetic solitons. Such solitons appear as\nsingle- and multi-hump beams, being either symmetric or antisymmetric, and they\ncan exist due to the hysteresis-type magnetic nonlinearity and the effective\ndomains of negative magnetic permeability.",
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"Ilya V. Shadrivov",
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"doi": "10.1029/2004RS003191",
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"title": "Nonlinear left-handed metamaterials",
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