• DocumentCode
    1769672
  • Title

    Observation of gravitational effects in nonlocal nonlinearity

  • Author

    Bekenstein, Rivka ; Schley, Ran ; Mutzafi, Maor ; Rotschild, Carmel ; Dolev, Ido ; Arie, Ady ; Segev, Mordechai

  • Author_Institution
    Phys. Dept., Solid State Inst., Technion - Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    8-13 June 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate optical analogues of gravitational effects such as gravitational lensing, tidal forces and gravitational redshift in the Newton-Schrödinger mainframe, by utilizing long-range interactions between solitons and accelerating beams in nonlocal nonlinear media.
  • Keywords
    Schrodinger equation; gravitational lenses; gravitational red shift; optical materials; optical solitons; Newton-Schrödinger mainframe; accelerating beams; gravitational effects; gravitational lensing; gravitational redshift; long-range interactions; nonlocal nonlinear media; nonlocal nonlinearity; optical analogues; solitons; tidal forces; Acceleration; Mathematical model; Nonlinear optics; Optical beams; Optical solitons; Particle beams;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6988477