Gravitational red-shift and deflection of slow light

Details Gravitational red-shift and deflection of slow light Gravitational red-shift and deflection of slow light

2008-10-27

arxiv.org/abs/0810.4849v1

Phys. Rev. A 79, 013834 (2009)

Physics

Optics

9 pages, 1 figure

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.79.013834

We explore the nature of the classical propagation of light through media with strong frequency-dependent dispersion in the presence of a gravitational field. In the weak field limit, gravity causes a redshift of the optical frequency, which the slow-light medium converts into a spatially-varying index of refraction. This results in the bending of a light ray in the medium. We further propose experimental techniques to amplify and detect the phenomenon using weak value measurements. Independent heuristic and rigorous derivations of this effect are given.

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