Transformation optics that mimics the system outside a Schwarzschild black hole

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 15183-15188

  Chen, Huanyang ^a   Miao, Rong Xin ^b,c   Li, Miao ^b,c  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STARS;

BLACK HOLES; SCHWARZSCHILD; TRANSFORMATION OPTICS;

GRAVITATION;

EID: 77957734324     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.015183     Document Type: Article

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