A simple optical analysis of gravitational lensing

DOI10.1080/09500340701618395MaRDI QIDQ3519009zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Xinghao Ye, Qiang Lin

Publication date 12 August 2008

Published in Journal of Modern Optics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0704.3485

zbMATH Keywords

gravitational lensinglight deflectionquantum vacuumvacuum refractive index

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Waves and radiation in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A40) Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Geometric optics (78A05)

Abstract: We analyzed the influence of static gravitational field on the vacuum and proposed the concept of inhomogeneous vacuum. According to the corresponding Fermat's principle in the general relativity, we derived a graded refractive index of vacuum in a static gravitational field. We found that the light deflection in a gravitational field can be calculated correctly with the use of this refractive index and therefore the gravitational lensing can be treated conveniently with the optical method. For illustration, we simulated the imaging of gravitational lensing, figured out the time delay between the two images and calculated the lens mass in a conventional optical way.

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