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Gravitational lens on a chip

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Massive objects in space act as gravitational lenses, bending and focusing light. Scientists have now created a photonic analogue of a gravitational lens on a chip, and have shown that it is strong enough to force light into orbits.

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Figure 1: Deflection of starlight in the space curved by the gravity of the Sun.

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  1. Ulf Leonhardt is at the Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel,

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Leonhardt, U. Gravitational lens on a chip. Nature Photon 7, 856–858 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2013.283

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