Experimental evidence of analogue Hawking radiation from ultrashort laser pulse filaments

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 13, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Rubino, E ^a   Belgiorno, F ^b   Cacciatori, S L ^a,c   Clerici, M ^a,d   Gorini, V ^a,c   Ortenzi, G ^e   Rizzi, L ^a   Sala, V G ^a   Kolesik, M ^f   Faccio, D ^a,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c INFN SEZIONE DI MILANO   (Italy)

^d INRS EMT   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^g HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK HOLES; EVENT HORIZON; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; HAWKING RADIATION; OBSERVATION WINDOW; PHYSICAL SYSTEMS; QUANTITATIVE AGREEMENT; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; QUANTUM VACUUM; RECENT PROGRESS; REFRACTIVE-INDEX PERTURBATION; SPACE TIME GEOMETRY; SUPERLUMINAL; TRANSFORMATION OPTICS; ULTRASHORT LASER PULSE;

GEOMETRY; GRAVITATION; LIGHT; PHOTONS; PULSE GENERATORS; RADIO COMMUNICATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; STARS;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 80051980908     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/13/8/085005     Document Type: Article

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