Synchronous picosecond sonoluminescence: Developing and characterizing a new light source. Final report, December 1991--December 1994

摘要

Sonoluminescence is the remarkable physical process whereby sound energy is transduced into light by the motion of a trapped bubble of gas in a liquid. Interest in sonoluminescence (or SL as we like to call it) is based upon our insight that sound energy must focus by over twelve orders of magnitude to make light. Thus SL is Nature's most nonlinear oscillator.