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dc.contributor.advisorKoenig, Friedrich Ernst Wilhelm
dc.contributor.authorSingh, Vyome
dc.coverage.spatial111en_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-15T15:11:59Z
dc.date.available2024-02-15T15:11:59Z
dc.date.issued2021-06-28
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/29264
dc.description.abstractIn this thesis I numerically study an optical pulse travelling in a dielectric medium as an analogue event horizon. A novel numerical method is developed to study the scattering properties of this optical system. Numerical solutions of scattering problems often exhibit instabilities. The staircase approximation, in addition, can cause slow convergence. We present a differential equation for the scattering matrix which solves both of these problems. The new algorithm inherits the numerical stability of the S matrix algorithm and converges faster for a smoothly varying potential than the S matrix algorithm with the staircase approximation. We apply our equation to solve a 1D stationary scattering of plane waves from a non-periodic smoothly varying pulse/scatterer travelling with a constant velocity in a lossless medium. The properties of stability and the convergence of the Riccati matrix equation are demonstrated. Furthermore, we include a relative velocity between the scatterer and the wave medium to generalise the algorithm further where the number of right and left going modes are not equal. The algorithm is applicable for stationary scattering process from arbitrarily shaped smooth scatterers, periodic or non-periodic, even when the scatterer is varying at the scale of wavelengths. This method is used to present numerical results for a sub-femtoseconds optical pulse travelling in bulk silica. We calculate the analogue hawking radiation from the analogue system. The temperature of the hawking radiation is studied systematically with many different profiles of pulses. We find out steepness, intensity and duration of the pulse are most important in producing analogue hawking radiation in these systems. A better numerical and theoretical understanding will make the experiments better suited to detect hawking radiation.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of St Andrews
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectBlack holesen_US
dc.subjectScattering matrixen_US
dc.subjectS-matrixen_US
dc.subjectAnalogueen_US
dc.subjectEvent horizonen_US
dc.subjectNumerical methodsen_US
dc.subjectQuantum opticsen_US
dc.subjectPhotonicsen_US
dc.subjectLight scatteringen_US
dc.subjectDiscretizationen_US
dc.subject.lccQC585.7O6S5
dc.subject.lcshDielectrics--Optical propertiesen
dc.subject.lcshS-matrix theoryen
dc.titleAnalogue event horizons in dielectric mediumen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.contributor.sponsorEngineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)en_US
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_US
dc.type.qualificationnamePhD Doctor of Philosophyen_US
dc.publisher.institutionThe University of St Andrewsen_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.17630/sta/768
dc.identifier.grantnumberEP/M508214/1en_US


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