Abstract
From the Maxwell equations, we derive the equations of propagation in a Kerr nonlinear left-handed metamaterial and show that a cavity filled with right-handed and left-handed materials exhibits bistable behavior and spatial modulational instability.
© 2005 Optical Society of America
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