Measurement of scaling laws for shock waves in thermal nonlocal media
arXiv:1204.5312 · doi:10.1364/OL.37.002325
Abstract
We are able to detect the details of spatial optical collisionless wave-breaking through the high aperture imaging of a beam suffering shock in a fluorescent nonlinear nonlocal thermal medium. This allows us to directly measure how nonlocality and nonlinearity affect the point of shock formation and compare results with numerical simulations.
4 pages, 4 figures