Blast waves in a paraxial fluid of light <sup>(a)</sup>
Blast waves in a paraxial fluid of light <sup>(a)</sup>
We study experimentally blast wave dynamics on a weakly interacting fluid of light. The fluid density and velocity are measured in 1D and 2D geometries. Using a state equation arising from the analogy between optical propagation in the paraxial approximation and the hydrodynamic Euler's equation, we access the fluid hydrostatic …