Optical pulse dynamics in active metamaterials with positive and negative refractive index
A. O. Korotkevich, Kathryn E. Rasmussen, Gregor Kovačič +3 more
We study numerically the propagation of two-color light pulses through a metamaterial doped with active atoms such that the carrier frequencies of the pulses are in resonance with two atomic transitions in the Λ configuration and that one color propagates in the regime of positive refraction and the other in the regime of negative refraction. In such a metamaterial, one resonant color of light propagates with positive and the other with negative group velocity. We investigate nonlinear interaction of these forward- and backward-propagating waves and find self-trapped waves, counterpropagating radiation waves, and hot spots of medium excitation.
arXiv:1302.0096•Journal of the Optical Society of America B•Mar 29, 2013•3 citations