Ultrashort solitons and kinetic effects in nonlinear metamaterials

2006/01/29 by M. Marklund, Mattias Marklund, P. K. Shukla +1 · 2 citations
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications #Nonlinear Photonic Systems #Quantum Mechanics and Non-Hermitian Physics #nlin.PS #physics.optics

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreve.73.037601

published as Phys. Rev. E 73, 037601 (2006) · 6 pages, 2 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. E

arxiv created 2006/01/29 · openalex publication_date 2006/03/14 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We present a stability analysis of a modified nonlinear Schrödinger equation describing the propagation of ultrashort pulses in negative refractive index media. Moreover, using methods of quantum statistics, we derive a kinetic equation for the pulses, making it possible to analyze and describe partial coherence in metamaterials. It is shown that a unique short pulse soliton, which is found analytically, can propagate in the medium.

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