Recent
observations of core collapse supernovae provide increasing
evidence that supernova explosions are intrinsically asymmetric.
An explosion model based on the assumption that bipolar,
non-relativistic jets form during core collapse predicts an
efficient ejection of a highly asymmetric supernova envelope and
helps in understanding many of the observations (Khokhlov, et.
al. ApJ 524, L107, 1999). Since the complex numerical
hydrodynamic astrophysical simulations of these jets require
validation, we have designed a series of hydrodynamically-scaled
jet experiments on the Omega laser at the University of
Rochester.