Author(s): Gang Xu, Matteo Conforti, Alexandre Kudlinski, Arnaud Mussot, and Stefano Trillo
We investigate the temporal photonic analogue of the dam-break phenomenon for shallow water by exploiting a fiber optics setup. We clearly observe the decay of the steplike input (photonic dam) into a pair of oppositely propagating rarefaction wave and dispersive shock wave. Our results show evidenc…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 254101] Published Tue Jun 20, 2017