Title :
Excitation of bright and dark gap solitons in a negative index material
Author :
Aguanno, Giuseppe D. ; Mattiucci, Nadia ; Scalora, Michael ; Bloemer, Mark J.
Author_Institution :
Time Domain Corp., Huntsville, AL, USA
Abstract :
We predict the existence of bright and dark gap solitons in a slab of negative index material as a result of the interplay between the linear dispersive properties and the effect of a cubic nonlinearity.
Keywords :
dark states; excited states; optical dispersion; optical materials; optical solitons; refractive index; bright solitons; cubic nonlinearity; dark solitons; gap solitons; linear dispersive properties; negative index material; soliton excitation; Fabry-Perot; Frequency; Magnetic materials; Magnetic susceptibility; Missiles; Permeability; Slabs; Solitons; USA Councils; Weapons;
Conference_Titel :
Quantum Electronics Conference, 2005. EQEC '05. European
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8973-5
DOI :
10.1109/EQEC.2005.1567246
