• DocumentCode
    3724627
  • 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
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    6/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    32
  • Lastpage
    33
  • 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"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Antennas and Propagation (APCAP), 2015 IEEE 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/APCAP.2015.7374260
  • Filename
    7374260
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3724627