How Light Behaves when the Refractive Index Vanishes

Robert W. Boyd; Robert W. Boyd

2021 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference
OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 2021),
paper pl_2_1

How Light Behaves when the Refractive Index Vanishes

Robert W. Boyd

The European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2021

Munich Germany
21–25 June 2021
ISBN: 978-1-6654-1876-8

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Abstract

We explore the properties of light within a medium for which the refractive index vanishes. The fundamental radiative processes of spontaneous and stimulated emission are predicted to be profoundly modified. Moreover, the nonlinear optical response is extremely large.

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