Title :
Optical gravitational collimation and observation of Einstein´s rings in transformation optics
Author :
Chong Sheng;Hiu Liu;Shining Zhu;Rivka Bekenstein;Mordechai Segev
Author_Institution :
National Laboratory of solid State Microstructures & Department and Physics, National Center of Microstructures and Quantum Manipulation, Nanjing University 210093, China
fDate :
6/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
We experimentally demonstrate collimation in transformation optics by designing a refractive index profile analogous to the curvature of a star. Our experiments also enable the observation of Einstein´s Rings caused by gravitational lensing as predicted in 1936.
Keywords :
"Refractive index","Optical refraction","Optical variables control","Fiber nonlinear optics","Optical fibers"
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation (APCAP), 2015 IEEE 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/APCAP.2015.7374260
