Ultrafast microscopy of shock waves using a shock target array with an optical nanogauge

The optical probing techniques used to measure the temperature and pressure of thin polymer film and in films doped with dyes are shown here. The dynamics of multiphonon up pumping processes are also studied. Presented are initial experiments on easily fabricated solid-state shock target array that allows to generate and probe shock wave produced in a metal layer and transmitted to a transparent polymer sample.