Generalized Short Pulse Equation for Propagation of Few-Cycle Pulses in Metamaterials

We show that propagation of ultrashort (few-cycle) pulses in nonlinear Drude metamaterials with both electric and magnetic Kerr nonlinearities is described by coupled generalized Short Pulse Equations. The resulting system of equations generalizes to the case of metamaterials both the Short Pulse Equation and its vector generalizations which describe the few-cycle pulses in dielectric optical fibers beyond the slowly varying envelope approximation leading to the nonlinear Schroedinger equation.