Black hole optical analogue: photon sphere microlasers
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| author | Xu, Chenni Sundaresan, Aswathy Kazkal, Nazire-Begüm Lafargue, Clement Zarfaty, Lior Wang, Li-Gang Birnholtz, Ofek Decanini, Dominique Lebental, Melanie Sebbah, Patrick |
| author_facet | Xu, Chenni Sundaresan, Aswathy Kazkal, Nazire-Begüm Lafargue, Clement Zarfaty, Lior Wang, Li-Gang Birnholtz, Ofek Decanini, Dominique Lebental, Melanie Sebbah, Patrick |
| contents | The bell-like ringdown of the gravitational field in the last stage of the merging of massive black holes is now routinely detected on earth by the last generation of gravitational wave detectors. Its spectrum is interpreted as a sum of damped sinusoidal vibrations of the spacetime in the vicinity of the black hole. These so-called quasinormal modes are currently the subject of extensive studies, yet, their true nature remains elusive. Here, we emulate, in the laboratory, genuine four-dimension black hole metrics by two-dimensional optical curved surfaces that preserve the features of lightlike geodesics. %We establish the analogy with gravitational waves radiated by relaxing black holes, and We analytically compute the optical quasinormal modes and show that they are confined around the photon sphere, the unstable region around a black hole where spacetime curvature traps light in circular orbits. By 3D-printing non-Euclidean dye-doped microcavities, we demonstrate lasing at the photon sphere with a mode profile that closely matches the analytical prediction. These results paves the way for observing astrophysical phenomena in tabletop setups and is likely to inspire innovative designs in photonics. |
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| spellingShingle | Black hole optical analogue: photon sphere microlasers Xu, Chenni Sundaresan, Aswathy Kazkal, Nazire-Begüm Lafargue, Clement Zarfaty, Lior Wang, Li-Gang Birnholtz, Ofek Decanini, Dominique Lebental, Melanie Sebbah, Patrick Optics The bell-like ringdown of the gravitational field in the last stage of the merging of massive black holes is now routinely detected on earth by the last generation of gravitational wave detectors. Its spectrum is interpreted as a sum of damped sinusoidal vibrations of the spacetime in the vicinity of the black hole. These so-called quasinormal modes are currently the subject of extensive studies, yet, their true nature remains elusive. Here, we emulate, in the laboratory, genuine four-dimension black hole metrics by two-dimensional optical curved surfaces that preserve the features of lightlike geodesics. %We establish the analogy with gravitational waves radiated by relaxing black holes, and We analytically compute the optical quasinormal modes and show that they are confined around the photon sphere, the unstable region around a black hole where spacetime curvature traps light in circular orbits. By 3D-printing non-Euclidean dye-doped microcavities, we demonstrate lasing at the photon sphere with a mode profile that closely matches the analytical prediction. These results paves the way for observing astrophysical phenomena in tabletop setups and is likely to inspire innovative designs in photonics. |
| title | Black hole optical analogue: photon sphere microlasers |
| topic | Optics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01751 |