Excitation of bright and dark gap solitons in a negative index material

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2006-01-10

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Aguanno, G.D.; et al.; Excitation of bright and dark gap solitons in a negative index material; EQEC '05. European Quantum Electronics Conference, 2005.; https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1567246

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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.