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Laser Pulse Analogues for Gravity

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Analogue Gravity Phenomenology

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Intense pulses of light may be used to create an effective flowing medium which mimics certain properties of black hole physics. It is possible to create the analogues of black and white hole horizons and a photon emission is predicted that is analogous to Hawking radiation. We give an overview of the current state of the art in the field of analogue gravity with laser pulses and of its implications and applications for optics.

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  1. Dipartimento di Scienza e Alta Tecnologia, Università dell’Insubria, Via Valleggio 11, 22100, Como, Italy

    Eleonora Rubino & Sergio Luigi Cacciatori

  2. Dipartimento di Matematica, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo 32, 20133, Milano, Italy

    Francesco Belgiorno

  3. School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, SUPA, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, UK

    Daniele Faccio

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    Daniele Faccio

  2. Dipartimento di Matematica, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

    Francesco Belgiorno

  3. Dipartimento di Fisica e Matematica, Universita’ dell’Insubria, Como, Italy

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Rubino, E., Belgiorno, F., Cacciatori, S.L., Faccio, D. (2013). Laser Pulse Analogues for Gravity. In: Faccio, D., Belgiorno, F., Cacciatori, S., Gorini, V., Liberati, S., Moschella, U. (eds) Analogue Gravity Phenomenology. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 870. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00266-8_11

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