PULSED MIE SCATTERING MEASUREMENTS OF THE COLLAPSE OF A SONOLUMINESCING BUBBLE

Authors
WENINGER KR BARBER BP PUTTERMAN SJ
Citation
Kr. Weninger et al., PULSED MIE SCATTERING MEASUREMENTS OF THE COLLAPSE OF A SONOLUMINESCING BUBBLE, Physical review letters, 78(9), 1997, pp. 1799-1802
Citations number
33
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physical review letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
78
Issue
9
Year of publication
1997
Pages
1799 - 1802
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1997)78:9<1799:PMSMOT>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
Measurements of light scattered off a bubble that is illuminated by a train of short pulses enables one to resolve the strongly supersonic c ollapse of a sonoluminescing bubble. We find that the collapse is fast er than Mach 4 (relative to the ambient speed of sound of the gas in t he bubble) and that the flash of sonoluminescence is emitted within 50 0 ps of the minimum bubble radius, at about which time the bubble's ac celeration is greater than 10(11) g.