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Spatial solitons in nonlinear left-handed metamaterials

Ilya V. Shadrivov, Yuri S. Kivshar

physics.opticsarXiv:physics/0405031

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.

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