title: Measurement of scaling laws for shock waves in thermal nonlocal media.
abstract: We are able to detect the details of spatial optical collisionless wave breaking through the high aperture imaging of a beam suffering shock in a fluorescent nonlinear nonlocal thermal medium. This allows us to directly measure how nonlocality and nonlinearity affect the point of shock formation and compare results with numerical simulations.
authors: Istituto dei Processi Chimico Fisici (IPCF)-Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), UOS Roma Kerberos, Università La Sapienza, P. le A. Moro 2, I-00185 Roma, Italy. neda.ghofraniha@roma1.infn.it
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