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  • Frontiers in Optics 2009/Laser Science XXV/Fall 2009 OSA Optics & Photonics Technical Digest
  • OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2009),
  • paper FMF1
  • https://doi.org/10.1364/FIO.2009.FMF1

Nonlinear diffraction from a straight edge

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Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate diffraction from a straight edge in a medium with self-focusing nonlinearity. Theoretically, we interpret the optical flow as a spatially-dispersive shock wave with negative pressure.

© 2009 Optical Society of America

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