Anomalous self-steepening, temporal pulse splitting and ring formation in a left-handed metamaterial with cubic nonlinearity

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1330-1337

  Kumar, Ajit ^a   Mishra, Akhilesh Kumar ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL NONLINEARITIES; MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; METAMATERIALS;

4-CYCLE; CUBIC NONLINEARITIES; DIELECTRIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; DISPERSIVE PROPERTIES; DRUDE MODELS; LEFT HANDED METAMATERIAL; MODEL EQUATIONS; NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEAR WAVE EQUATION; PROPAGATION PROPERTIES; PULSE EVOLUTION; PULSE SPLITTING; RING FORMATION; SELF-STEEPENING; SINGLE-CYCLE PULSE; THIRD-ORDER NON-LINEARITY; WAVE APPROXIMATION;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 84861825524     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.29.001330     Document Type: Article

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