• DocumentCode
    1692828
  • Title

    Light-induced shock waves in dense colloidal suspensions

  • Author

    Greenfield, Elad ; Segev, Mordechai ; El-Ganainy, R. ; Christodoulides, Demetrios N.

  • Author_Institution
    Phys. Dept. & Solid State Inst., Technion - Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate theoretically and experimentally gradient-force induced, nanoparticle shockwaves forming in dense strongly scattering colloidal-suspensions. These light-induced directional `spear-shaped´ wavefronts allow concentrating and transporting large amounts of nanoparticles in local regions of a microfluidic channel.
  • Keywords
    colloids; microchannel flow; nanoparticles; shock waves; suspensions; dense strongly scattering colloidal-suspensions; gradient-force induced nanoparticle shock-waves; light-induced directional spear-shaped wavefronts; light-induced shock waves; local regions; microfluidic channel; Biomedical optical imaging; Fluids; Nonlinear optics; Optical diffraction; Optical scattering; Suspensions;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1839-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6327158