2004/05/07 by Ilya V. Shadrivov, Yuri S. Kivshar
Physics and Astronomy · #physics.optics
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1464-4258/7/2/009
published as J. Opt. A-Pure Appl. Opt. 7, 68-72 (2005) · 4 pages, 5 figures
arxiv created 2004/05/07 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
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.