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From ‘Trapped Rainbow’ Slow Light to Spatial Solitons

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The metamaterial global revolution, stimulated by the pioneering work of Pendry [1], in the year 2000, raises all kinds of questions as to what they can be used for.

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  1. Joule Physics Laboratory, Materials and Physics Research Centre, University of Salford, Greater Manchester, M5 4WT, UK

    Allan D. Boardman & Neil J. King

  2. The Blackett Laboratory, Department of Physics, South Kensington Campus, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK

    Kosmas L. Tsakmakidis & Ortwin Hess

  3. School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, London, E1 4NS, UK

    Rhiannon C. Mitchell-Thomas

  4. Faculty of physics, Taras Shevchenko National University, Prospect Glushkov 6, 22, Kiev, Ukraine

    Yuri G. Rapoport

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Boardman, A.D., Tsakmakidis, K.L., Mitchell-Thomas, R.C., King, N.J., Rapoport, Y.G., Hess, O. (2015). From ‘Trapped Rainbow’ Slow Light to Spatial Solitons . In: Shadrivov, I., Lapine, M., Kivshar, Y. (eds) Nonlinear, Tunable and Active Metamaterials. Springer Series in Materials Science, vol 200. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08386-5_9

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