Superluminal light group velocity in tapered optical microfibers

Authors

  • Noor M. Yaseen
  • Suha Musa Al-Awsi
  • Ibrahim A. Sadiq

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21533/pen.v10.i2.585

Abstract

Superluminal light group velocity was formerly reported in anomalous dispersion, nonlinear amplification of light pulse, high-gain lasers' cavities, and waveguides. Motivated by a recent observation of light acceleration in optical microfiber [1], the possibility of attaining the light group velocity exceeds its value in vacuum is investigated. The investigation of superluminal velocity is in tapered optical microfiber that has a radius decreases with propagation axis by a factor 10-3. Our results show the possibility of attaining superluminal group velocity in this microfiber at length of about 1080µm. At this length the instantaneous acceleration of light is found to be 13×1019 m/s2 which its corresponding Unruh temperature is 0.527K.

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2022-03-31

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Vol. 10 No. 2 (2022)

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Superluminal light group velocity in tapered optical microfibers. (2022). Periodicals of Engineering and Natural Sciences, 10(2), 109-113. https://doi.org/10.21533/pen.v10.i2.585