Implications For Aerospace Design. The double-cone model, a stand-in for many hypersonic vehicle noses and re-entry bodies, exposed a critical design flaw: what was once thought to be a stable ...

More information: Jinyang Liang et al. Single-shot real-time video recording of a photonic Mach cone induced by a scattered light pulse, Science Advances (2017). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1601814 Abstract ...

A team of researchers at Washington University in St. Louis has taken images of a laser pulse generating an optical Mach cone: the equivalent of a sonic boom, but for light. To make an optical ...

No one has ever witnessed a Mach cone propagating in real time, and applying the camera to different phenomena could lead to breakthroughs in a number of biomedical fields, including helping to ...

Researchers from the University of Washington in St. Louis have captured a photonic Mach cone, or a sonic boom of light on video, using probably the world’s fastest camera.