Title :
Gap solitons in microstructured metamaterials
Author_Institution :
Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
Abstract :
This paper shows that envelope gap solitons can be supported in lossless metamaterials exhibiting a cubic dielectric nonlinearity when the carrier frequency is tuned inside the stop band separating left-handed and right-handed propagative spectral regions.
Keywords :
dielectric materials; metamaterials; optical solitons; carrier frequency tuning; cubic dielectric nonlinearity; gap solitons; lossless metamaterials; microstructured metamaterials; propagative spectral regions; Dispersion; Frequency; Magnetic analysis; Magnetic materials; Maxwell equations; Metamaterials; Microwave propagation; Nonlinear equations; Photonic band gap; Solitons;
Conference_Titel :
Quantum Electronics Conference, 2005. EQEC '05. European
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8973-5
DOI :
10.1109/EQEC.2005.1567253
