Nonlinear effects in left-handed metamaterials

Yuri S. Kivshar; Ilya Shadrivov; Alexander Zharov

doi:10.1117/12.560683

Nonlinear effects in left-handed metamaterials

Yuri S. Kivshar^*, Ilya Shadrivov, Alexander Zharov

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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.

Original language	English
Article number	20
Pages (from-to)	138-142
Number of pages	5
Journal	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	5508
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.560683
Publication status	Published - 2004
Event	Complex Mediums V: Light and Complexity - Denver, CO, United States Duration: 4 Aug 2004 → 5 Aug 2004

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