Analog gravity from electrodynamics in non-linear media

Abstract

Working with electrodynamics in the geometrical optics approximation we derive the expression representing an effectively curved geometry which guides the propagation of electromagnetic waves in material media whose physical properties depend on an external electric field. The issue of birefringence is addressed, and the trajectory of the extraordinary ray is explicitly worked out. Quite general curves are obtained for the path of the light ray by suitably setting an electric field.

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