Hawking radiation in optics and beyond
Abstract
Hawking radiation was originally proposed in astrophysics, but it has been generalized and extended to other physical systems receiving the name of analogue Hawking radiation. In the last two decades, several attempts have been made to measure it in a laboratory, one of the most successful systems is in optics. Light interacting in a dielectric material causes an analogue Hawking effect, in fact, its stimulated version has already been detected and the search for the spontaneous signal is currently ongoing. We briefly review the general derivation of Hawking radiation, then we focus on the optical analogue and present some novel numerical results. Finally, we call for a generalization of the term Hawking radiation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2002.07907,
title = {Hawking radiation in optics and beyond},
author = {Raul Aguero-Santacruz and David Bermudez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.07907},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
20 pages, 8 figures, 64 references. Contribution to: "The next generation of analogue gravity experiments" at the Royal Society on December 2019