Spacetime geometries and light trapping in travelling refractive index perturbations

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Cacciatori, S L ^a,b   Belgiorno, F ^c   Gorini, V ^a,b   Ortenzi, G ^d   Rizzi, L ^a   Sala, V G ^a   Faccio, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIKONAL APPROXIMATIONS; ERGOSPHERE; EVENT HORIZON; KERR MEDIUM; LIGHT-TRAPPING; MATERIAL DISPERSIONS; REFRACTIVE-INDEX PERTURBATION; SPACE TIME GEOMETRY; SUPERLUMINAL; TRANSFORMATION OPTICS;

REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS;

LIGHT REFRACTION;

EID: 77958589004     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/12/9/095021     Document Type: Article

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