Transonic flow in an optical analogue of the Laval nozzle

M. Elazar; V. Fleurov; S. Bar-Ad

doi:10.1364/NLO.2011.NTuE6

Nonlinear Optics
OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2011),
paper NTuE6
•https://doi.org/10.1364/NLO.2011.NTuE6

Transonic flow in an optical analogue of the Laval nozzle

M. Elazar, V. Fleurov, and S. Bar-Ad

Nonlinear Optics: Materials, Fundamentals and Applications 2011

Kauai, Hawaii United States
17–22 July 2011
ISBN: 978-1-55752-915-2

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Abstract

We study the flow through an optical Laval nozzle by launching a laser beam into a suitably shaped waveguide with Kerr-type defocusing nonlinearity. The experimental design lends itself to laboratory experiments on black hole physics.

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