Experimental Demonstration of Reflection and Refraction of Optical Pulses from Temporal Boundaries
Bethany Little, Brent W. Plansinis, Govind Prasad Agrawal +1 more
We experimentally implement the proposal of Plansinis et al.[PRL 115, 183910 (2015)] using slow light in Rubidium vapor. Time-dependent frequency shifts on probe pulses behave like angles in the analogous spatial reflection and refraction from classical optics.
Frontiers in Optics•Jan 1, 2016•0 citations