Wave-speed management of dipole, bright and W-shaped solitons in optical metamaterials

Abstract: Wave-speed management of soliton pulses in a nonlinear metamaterial exhibiting a rich variety of physical effects that are important in a wide range of practical applications, is studied both theoretically and numerically. Ultrashort electromagnetic pulse transmission in such inhomogeneous system is described by a generalized nonlinear Schreodinger equation with space-modulated higher-order dispersive and nonlinear effects of different nature. We present the discovery of three types of periodic wave solutions that are composed by the product of Jacobi elliptic functions in the presence of all physical processes. Envelope solitons of the dipole, bright and W-shaped types are also identified, thus illustrating the potentially rich set of localized pulses in the system. We develop an effective similarity transformation method to investigate the soliton dynamics in the presence of the inhomogeneities of media. The application of developed method to control the wave speed of the presented solitons is discussed. The results show that the wave speed of dipole, bright and W-shaped solitons can be effectively controlled through spatial modulation of the metamaterial parameters. In particular, the soliton pulses can be decelerated and accelerated by suitable variations of the distributed dispersion parameters.