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View SchemaNonlinear surface waves in left-handed materials
| Authors | Ilya V. Shadrivov, Andrey A. Sukhorukov, Yuri S. Kivshar, Alexander A. Zharov, Allan D. Boardman, Peter Egan |
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| ArXiv ID | physics/0305126 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0305126 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevE.69.016617 |
| Journal | Phys. Rev. E 69, 016617 (2004) |
Abstract
We study both linear and nonlinear surface waves localized at the interface separating a left-handed medium (i.e. the medium with both negative dielectric permittivity and negative magnetic permeability) and a conventional (or right-handed) dielectric medium. We demonstrate that the interface can support both TE- and TM-polarized surface waves - surface polaritons, and we study their properties. We describe the intensity-dependent properties of nonlinear surface waves in three different cases, i.e. when both the LH and RH media are nonlinear and when either of the media is nonlinear. In the case when both media are nonlinear, we find two types of nonlinear surface waves, one with the maximum amplitude at the interface, and the other one with two humps. In the case when one medium is nonlinear, only one type of surface wave exists, which has the maximum electric field at the interface, unlike waves in right-handed materials where the surface-wave maximum is usually shifted into a self-focussing nonlinear medium. We discus the possibility of tuning the wave group velocity in both the linear and nonlinear cases, and show that group-velocity dispersion, which leads to pulse broadening, can be balanced by the nonlinearity of the media, so resulting in soliton propagation.
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