Optics of Nonuniformly Moving Media

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1999-06-22

arxiv.org/abs/physics/9906038v3

Physical Review A 60, 4301 (1999)

Physics

Optics

Physical Review A (submitted)

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.60.4301

A moving dielectric appears to light as an effective gravitational field. At low flow velocities the dielectric acts on light in the same way as a magnetic field acts on a charged matter wave. We develop in detail the geometrical optics of moving dispersionless media. We derive a Hamiltonian and a Lagrangian to describe ray propagation. We elucidate how the gravitational and the magnetic model of light propagation are related to each other. Finally, we study light propagation around a vortex flow. The vortex shows an optical Aharonov--Bohm effect at large distances from the core, and, at shorter ranges, the vortex may resemble an optical black hole.

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