Shocks in nonlocal media

Details Shocks in nonlocal media Shocks in nonlocal media

2007-04-04

arxiv.org/abs/0704.0610v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 043903 (2007)

Physics

Optics

5 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.043903

We investigate the formation of collisionless shocks along the spatial profile of a gaussian laser beam propagating in nonlocal nonlinear media. For defocusing nonlinearity the shock survives the smoothing effect of the nonlocal response, though its dynamics is qualitatively affected by the latter, whereas for focusing nonlinearity it dominates over filamentation. The patterns observed in a thermal defocusing medium are interpreted in the framework of our theory.

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