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 Participant

ISHIHARA, Hideki

Institution

Osaka City University  - Sugimoto - Osaka - Osaka - Japan

Session

GL3

Accepted

Yes

Order

7

Time

17:10 20'

Talk

Oral abstract

Title

Propagation of an optical vortex in a curved space-time
Coauthors Masuda, Atsuki; Kinoshita, Shunichiro

Abstract

Recently, optical vortices, twisted light beams like corkscrew around axes of travel, are actively investigated in laboratories. The beams carry orbital angular momentum along their propagation axes. We study orbits of an optical vortex in a curved spacetime using the eikonal approximation. We show that the equation of motion for an optical vortex is different from the geodesic equation due to 'spin-gravity' coupling. We discuss deviation of orbits from the geodesic in a Kerr spacetime.

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