Nonlinear transmission and spatiotemporal solitons in metamaterials with negative refraction

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1291-1298

  Zharova, Nina A ^a,b   Shadrivov, Ilya V ^a   Zharov, Alexander A ^a,c   Kivshar, Yuri S ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE FOR PHYSICS OF MICROSTRUCTURES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; REFRACTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

METAMATERIALS; NEGATIVE REFRACTION; NONLINEAR TRANSMISSION; SPATIOTEMPORAL SOLITONS;

SOLITONS;

EID: 14844303484     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.001291     Document Type: Article

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