Solitonic metamaterial-driven magnetooptic structures, vortex creation and energy concentrators

Nonlinear metamaterial-driven waveguide geometries are discussed with an emphasis upon solitonic behaviour and the critical role of magnetooptics as a controlling influence that will drive not only applications but some future directions of metamaterial creation. The exotic family of excitations that emerge will include highly structured light in the form of optical vortices, which can be shaped to take advantage of a new, nonlinear, diffraction that dominates over nonparaxiality. Finally, a brief introduction to novel nonlinear energy concentrators is developed.