TY - JOUR
T1 - Observation of locked optical kink-antikink spatial shock waves
AU - Freedman, Barak
AU - Carmon, Tal
AU - Carvalho, M. I.
AU - Segev, Mordechai
AU - Christodoulides, Demetrios N.
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - We report the first experimental observation of optical spatial shock-wave pairs. The shock waves consist of two coupled kink and antikink beams that remain locked to each other throughout propagation in a nonlinear diffusion-driven photorefractive crystal. These coupled shock-wave pairs move undistorted at angles that fall outside their original angular sector of propagation.
AB - We report the first experimental observation of optical spatial shock-wave pairs. The shock waves consist of two coupled kink and antikink beams that remain locked to each other throughout propagation in a nonlinear diffusion-driven photorefractive crystal. These coupled shock-wave pairs move undistorted at angles that fall outside their original angular sector of propagation.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.133902
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.133902
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AN - SCOPUS:0242384607
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 91
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
IS - 13
ER -