What is the temporal analog of reflection and refraction of optical beams?
Abstract
It is shown numerically and analytically that when an optical pulse approaches a moving temporal boundary across which the refractive index changes, it undergoes a temporal equivalent of reflection and refraction of optical beams at a spatial boundary. The main difference is that the role of angles is played by changes in the frequency. The frequency dependence of the dispersion of the material in which the pulse is propagating plays a fundamental role in determining the frequency shifts experienced by the reflected and refracted pulses. As a result, our analytic expressions for these frequency shifts allow us to find the condition under which an analog of total internal reflection may occur at the temporal boundary.
- Authors:
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- Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1223342
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1224573
- Grant/Contract Number:
- NA0001944
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 115; Journal Issue: 18; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS
Citation Formats
Plansinis, B. W., Donaldson, W. R., and Agrawal, G. P. What is the temporal analog of reflection and refraction of optical beams?. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.183901.
Plansinis, B. W., Donaldson, W. R., & Agrawal, G. P. What is the temporal analog of reflection and refraction of optical beams?. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.183901
Plansinis, B. W., Donaldson, W. R., and Agrawal, G. P. Wed .
"What is the temporal analog of reflection and refraction of optical beams?". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.183901. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1223342.
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title = {What is the temporal analog of reflection and refraction of optical beams?},
author = {Plansinis, B. W. and Donaldson, W. R. and Agrawal, G. P.},
abstractNote = {It is shown numerically and analytically that when an optical pulse approaches a moving temporal boundary across which the refractive index changes, it undergoes a temporal equivalent of reflection and refraction of optical beams at a spatial boundary. The main difference is that the role of angles is played by changes in the frequency. The frequency dependence of the dispersion of the material in which the pulse is propagating plays a fundamental role in determining the frequency shifts experienced by the reflected and refracted pulses. As a result, our analytic expressions for these frequency shifts allow us to find the condition under which an analog of total internal reflection may occur at the temporal boundary.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.183901},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 18,
volume = 115,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Oct 28 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Wed Oct 28 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}
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