Relativistic Effects of Light in Moving Media with Extremely Low Group Velocity
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- 31 January 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 84 (5) , 822-825
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.84.822
Abstract
A moving dielectric medium acts as an effective gravitational field on light. One can use media with extremely low group velocities [Lene Vestergaard Hau et al., Nature (London) 397, 594 (1999)] to create dielectric analogs of astronomical effects on Earth. In particular, a vortex flow imprints a long-ranging topological effect on incident light and can behave like an optical black hole.Keywords
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