Light in moving media

Authors
Leonhardt, U Piwnicki, P
Citation
U. Leonhardt et P. Piwnicki, Light in moving media, CONT PHYS, 41(5), 2000, pp. 301-308
Citations number
30
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
CONTEMPORARY PHYSICS
ISSN journal
00107514 → ACNP
Volume
41
Issue
5
Year of publication
2000
Pages
301 - 308
Database
ISI
SICI code
0010-7514(200009/10)41:5<301:LIMM>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
We embark on a journey through optics in dielectric media, inspired and gui ded by Fermat's Principle. We show how to modify the principle when dielect rics are moving non-uniformly and explain how the propagation of light in f luids is connected to phenomena in magnetism and in general relativity. Die lectric media may even serve to build artificial astronomical objects in an earthly laboratory.