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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
