Spatial solitons in nonlinear left-handed metamaterials
arXiv:physics/0405031 · doi:10.1088/1464-4258/7/2/009
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