Wave in Nonlinear Transmission Lattice

Project Type:

Project

Project Sponsors:

Northrop Grumman

Project Award:

$60,000

Project Timeline:

2016-11-10 – 2017-11-10

Lead Principal Investigator:

In this project we will explore solutions in the transmission line or lattice analogue of a nonlinear left handed metamaterial. The nonlinearity is expressed by a voltage dependent. We will develop both the corresponding nonlinear dynamical lattice, as well as its reduction via a multiple scales expansion to nonlinear Schrodinger (NLS) models for the envelope of a given carrier wave. We then consider the robustness of different types of solitary waves of the reduced model within the original nonlinear left handed medium.