Nonlinear effects in left-handed metamaterials

Yuri S. Kivshar; Ilya Shadrivov; Alexander Zharov

doi:10.1117/12.560683

2 August 2004 Nonlinear effects in left-handed metamaterials

Yuri S. Kivshar, Ilya Shadrivov, Alexander Zharov

Proceedings Volume 5508, Complex Mediums V: Light and Complexity; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.560683
Event: Optical Science and Technology, the SPIE 49th Annual Meeting, 2004, Denver, Colorado, United States

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. We predict 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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Yuri S. Kivshar, Ilya Shadrivov, and Alexander Zharov "Nonlinear effects in left-handed metamaterials", Proc. SPIE 5508, Complex Mediums V: Light and Complexity, (2 August 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.560683

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