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On the analogy between Hawking radiation and nonlinear optical process of subharmonic generation (waveguide model of a black hole)

L. A. Rivlin

Moscow State Institute of Radio-Engineering, Electronics and Automation (Technical University)

Abstract: Observation of photon behaviour in a waveguide model of spatial electromagnetic-field localisation establishes in a thought experiment a detailed analogy between the quantum-mechanical production of photon pairs at the horizon of an evaporating black hole and the classical nonlinear phenomenon of generation of subharmonics.

Keywords: spatial localisation of the electromagnetic field and the waveguide model of a photon, production of photon pairs at the horizon and evaporation of a black hole, nonlinear optical generation of subharmonics.

PACS: 04.40.Nr, 04.70.Bw, 84.40.Az

Received: 12.05.2012

 English version: Quantum Electronics, 2012, 42:7, 650–652

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