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arxiv: 0711.4796 · v2 · submitted 2007-11-29 · 🌀 gr-qc

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Fiber-optical analogue of the event horizon

Chris Kuklewicz, Friedrich Konig, Scott Robertson, Stephen Hill, Thomas G. Philbin, Ulf Leonhardt

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keywords horizoneventhorizonsopticalanalogueartificialbehaviorblue-shifting
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The physics at the event horizon resembles the behavior of waves in moving media. Horizons are formed where the local speed of the medium exceeds the wave velocity. We use ultrashort pulses in microstructured optical fibers to demonstrate the formation of an artificial event horizon in optics. We observed a classical optical effect, the blue-shifting of light at a white-hole horizon. We also show by theoretical calculations that such a system is capable of probing the quantum effects of horizons, in particular Hawking radiation.

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