Photonic chip-based analogue of the Thomas Effect in special relativity: Important design considerations

Authors

  • Aria Buenaventura ⋅ PH Department of Physics, Ateneo de Manila University
  • Annelle Tiong Chua ⋅ PH Department of Physics, Ateneo de Manila University
  • Katsuya Olasiman Akamatsu ⋅ PH Department of Physics, Ateneo de Manila University
  • Benjamin B. Dingel ⋅ US Ateneo Innovation Center, Ateneo de Manila University and Nasfine Photonics Inc.

Abstract

We report the effect of the unavoidable optical loss on the performance accuracy of a recently proposed photonic chip-based analogue of the relativistic Thomas effect, a well-known phenomenon of special relativity. Our investigations reveal that the optical loss factor of the photonic chip must be ≥ 0.91 so the normalized deviation error is < 1% to cover greater than 95% of its angular operating range.

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Article ID

SPP-2019-2C-06

Section

Ultrafast Optics, Photonics, and Terahertz Physics

Published

2019-05-11

How to Cite

[1]
A Buenaventura, AT Chua, KO Akamatsu, and BB Dingel, Photonic chip-based analogue of the Thomas Effect in special relativity: Important design considerations, Proceedings of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas 37, SPP-2019-2C-06 (2019). URL: https://proceedings.spp-online.org/article/view/SPP-2019-2C-06.