title: 100-Watt sonoluminescence generated by 2.5-atmosphere-pressure pulses.
abstract: A Xenon gas bubble introduced into a vertically suspended steel cylinder is driven to sonoluminescence by impacting the apparatus against a solid steel base. This produces a 150-ns flash of broadband light that exceeds 100-W peak intensity and has a spectral temperature of 10,200 K. This bubble system, which yields light with a single shot, emits very powerful sonoluminescence. A jet is visible following bubble collapse, which demonstrates that spherical symmetry is not necessary to produce sonoluminescence.
authors: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California Los Angeles, California 90095, USA. kappus@physics.ucla.edu
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