Fiber-optical analog of the event horizon

Science

Volumn 319, Issue 5868, 2008, Pages 1367-1370

  Philbin, Thomas G ^a,b   Kuklewicz, Chris ^a   Robertson, Scott ^a   Hill, Stephen ^a   König, Friedrich ^a   Leonhardt, Ulf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT; MICROSTRUCTURE; PHYSICS; RADIATION BALANCE; THEORETICAL STUDY; WAVE VELOCITY;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; EVENT HORIZON; FIBER OPTICS; LIGHT; OPTICS; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; THEORETICAL STUDY; VELOCITY; WAVEFORM;

EID: 40449107718     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1153625     Document Type: Article

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29. We are indebted to G. Agrawal, M. Dunn, T. Hänsch, A. Miller, R. Parentani, and W. Sibbett for discussions and technical support. We thank A. Podlipensky and P. Russell for measuring the dispersion of our fiber. Our work was supported by the Leverhulme Trust, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Continuous Variable Quantum Information with Atoms and Light, the Ultrafast Photonics Facility at St Andrews, and Leonhardt Group Aue.