Spatial solitons in nonlinear left-handed metamaterials

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.

4 pages, 5 figures

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• Nonlinear properties of left-handed metamaterials

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