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Bright and dark gap solitons in a negative index Fabry-Pérot etalon
Giuseppe D'Aguanno1, Nadia Mattiucci, Michael Scalora
1Time Domain Corporation, Cummings Research Park 7057 Old Madison Pike, Huntsville, Alabama 35806, USA.
Physical Review Letters
|December 17, 2004
Abstract:
We predict the existence of bright and dark gap solitons in a single slab of negative index material. The formation of gap solitons is made possible by the exceptional interplay between the linear dispersive properties of the negative index etalon and the effect of a cubic nonlinearity.

