Synchronous, Picosecond Sonoluminescence
Friday, January 28, 1994 4:00 p.m. Anthony A. Atchley Physics Department Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, CA A single gas bubble, acoustically levitated in a standing wave field and oscillating under the action of that field, can emit a single pulse of blue-white light. This emission, called sonoluminescence (SL), has a number of remarkable features. It…