51. Ballistic dispersive shock waves in optical fibers
- Author
-
Nuño, Javier, Finot, Christophe, Millot, Guy, Erkintalo, Miro, and Fatome, Julien
- Subjects
Physics - Optics - Abstract
We experimentally and numerically report on the formation of ballistic dispersive shock waves that mimic superfluid behavior in optical fibers. The shock wave is triggered by a strong nonlinear phase shift induced by a high power pump pulse on a cross-polarized continuous-wave probe field, and it exhibits a central void surrounded by two oscillating fronts moving away from each other with opposite velocities. The impact of disorder in the continuous-wave background as well as the difference of group-velocities between the two orthogonally polarized waves is also investigated. Our experimental observations are in very good agreement with theoretical and numerical predictions derived from the Manakov model.
- Published
- 2018