Diffraction from an edge in a self-focusing medium

Wenjie Wan; Dmitry V. Dylov; Christopher Barsi; Jason W. Fleischer

doi:10.1364/OL.35.002819

Diffraction from an edge in a self-focusing medium

Wenjie Wan, Dmitry V. Dylov, Christopher Barsi, Jason W. Fleischer

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Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate diffraction from a straight edge in a medium with self-focusing nonlinearity. Diffraction into the shadow region is suppressed with increasing nonlinearity, but mode coupling leads to excitations and traveling waves on the high-intensity side. Theoretically, we interpret these modulations as spatially dispersive shock waves with negative pressure.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	2819-2821
Number of pages	3
Journal	Optics Letters
Volume	35
Issue number	16
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.35.002819
State	Published - Aug 15 2010

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Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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