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We develop an analytical formalism for studying optical analogues of spherically symmetric black-hole spacetimes. We demonstrate the exact similarity between the electromagnetic wave equations in an inhomogeneous medium in flat spacetime…

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The silhouette of a black hole having a critical curve (an unstable bound photon orbit) when illuminated by an optically thin accretion disk whose emission is confined to the equatorial plane shows a distinctive central brightness…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-11 Merce Guerrero , Gonzalo J. Olmo , Diego Rubiera-Garcia , Diego Sáez-Chillón Gómez

The paper deals with static traversable wormhole having shape function a polynomial of the radial coordinate of degree 2. Embedding of the wormholes in space-time is examined both analytically and graphically. Also both timelike and null…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-03 Bikram Ghosh , Sourav Dutta , Sudeshna Mukerji , Subenoy Chakraborty

In this work, we consider a static wormhole in Bopp-Podolsky electrodynamics and convert it into its rotating counterpart by reducing it into Morris-Thorne form. We further study the null geodesics and effective potential along with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-14 Muhammad Ali Raza , Francisco Tello-Ortiz , M. Zubair , Y. Gómez-Leyton

We investigate the shadow properties in a recently proposed geometry of a rotating wormhole under realistic astrophysical conditions, particularly in the presence of a cold and non magnetized plasma environment surrounding the wormhole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-16 Pabitra Gayen , Ratna Koley

We examine the optical properties of metals containing a periodic arrangement of nonoverlapping spherical mesopores, empty or filled with a dielectric material. We show that a slab of such a porous metal transmits light over regions of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 N. Stefanou , A. Modinos , V. Yannopapas

We investigate the wave optics in spherically symmetric spacetimes: Schwarzschild black hole, spherical star with a perfect absorbing surface, and massless/massive Ellis wormholes. Assuming a point wave source, wave pattern and power…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-25 Yasusada Nambu , Sousuke Noda , Yuichiro Sakai

We describe the analytical extension of certain static cylindrical multi--cosmic string metrics to wormhole spacetimes with only one region at spatial infinity, and investigate in detail the geometry of asymptotically Minkowskian wormhole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Gerard Clement

We discuss the propagation of light in the C-metric. We discover that null geodesics admit circular orbits only for a certain family of orbital cones. Explicit analytic formulae are derived for the orbital radius and the corresponding…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-21 M. Alrais Alawadi , D. Batic , M. Nowakowski

We consider the propagation of light in a anisotropic medium with a topological line defect in the realm of geometrical optics. It is shown that the effective geometry perceived by light propagating in such medium is that of a spacial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Caio Sátiro , Fernando Moraes

We examine the compatibility of the mirror matter concept with the non-orientable wormholes. If any particle (or classical object) is traversing through the non-orientable wormhole, it turns into a corresponding mirror particle and vice…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-08-04 V. I. Dokuchaev , Yu. N. Eroshenko

Natural wormholes and its astrophysical signatures have been sugested in various oportunities. By applying the strong field limit of gravitational lensing theory, we calculate the deflection angle and magnification curves produced by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-08 J. M. Tejeiro , E. Larranaga

Propagation of light in nonlinear materials is here studied in the regime of the geometrical optics. It is shown that a spherically symmetric medium at rest with some specific dielectric properties can be used to produce an exact analogue…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-02-17 E. Bittencourt , V. A. De Lorenci , R. Klippert , M. Novello , J. M. Salim

Structured, periodic optical materials can be used to form photonic crystals capable of dispersing, routing, and trapping light. A similar phenomena in periodic elastic structures can be used to manipulate mechanical vibrations. Here we…

We investigate the observable signatures -- the shadow, the throat silhouette, and the image of a thin accretion disk -- for a family of static, spherically symmetric wormholes with an arbitrary throat profile. First, we derive expressions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-20 Valeria A. Ishkaeva , Sergey V. Sushkov

Formal analogies between gravitational and optical phenomena have been explored for over a century, providing valuable insights into kinematic aspects of general relativity. Here, this analogy is employed to study light propagation in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-04 Lucas T. de Paula , Caio C. Holanda Ribeiro , Vitorio A. De Lorenci

The metric of a tidally distorted, nonrotating black hole is presented in a light-cone coordinate system that penetrates the event horizon and possesses a clear geometrical meaning. The metric is expressed as an expansion in powers of r/R…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Eric Poisson

Trajectories of light rays in a static spacetime are described by unparametrised geodesics of the Riemannian optical metric associated with the Lorentzian spacetime metric. We investigate the uniqueness of this structure and demonstrate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-12 Stephen Casey , Maciej Dunajski , Gary Gibbons , Claude Warnick

Propagation of light in a metamaterial medium which mimics curved spacetime and acts like a black hole is studied. We show that for a particular type of spacetimes and wave polarization, the time dilation appears as dielectric permittivity,…

Optics · Physics 2015-11-26 Isabel Fernández-Núñez , Oleg Bulashenko

A pseudoscopic (inverted depth) image made with spiral diffracting elements intermediated by a pinhole is explained by its symmetry properties. The whole process is made under common white light illumination and allows the projection of…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jose J. Lunazzi , Noemi I. R. Rivera , Daniel S. F. Magalhaes