• DocumentCode
    520971
  • Title

    Richtmyer-Meshkov instability in nonlinear optics

  • Author

    Jia, Shu ; Huntley, Laura I. ; Fleischer, Jason W.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ, USA
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    16-21 May 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We experimentally demonstrate an all-optical Richtmyer-Meshkov instability, in which a shock wave is incident on an intensity interface. Intensity fingering and shear-generated vortices are observed for both 1D and 2D shock-wave impulses.
  • Keywords
    Acceleration; Dispersion; Electric shock; Fluid dynamics; Hydrodynamics; Nonlinear equations; Nonlinear optics; Optical vortices; Physics; Shock waves;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-890-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-890-2
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5500575