Restricted accessMoreSectionsView PDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail Cite this article Barber Bradley P., Weninger Keith and Putterman Seth 1997SonoluminescencePhil. Trans. R. Soc. A.355641–648http://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.1997.0030SectionRestricted accessSonoluminescence Bradley P. Barber Bradley P. Barber Physics Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author , Keith Weninger Keith Weninger Physics Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author and Seth Putterman Seth Putterman Physics Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author Bradley P. Barber Bradley P. Barber Physics Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author , Keith Weninger Keith Weninger Physics Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author and Seth Putterman Seth Putterman Physics Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author Published:15 March 1997https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.1997.0030AbstractPulsed light scattering off of a gas bubble trapped in a fluid by a strong sound field indicates that ‘sonoluminescence’ is accompannied by a high Mach number implosion of the bubble's wall. Although these measurements support the imploding shock wave model of sonoluminescence there remain many unknowns including the effects of impurities, fluid temperature, noble gas doping as well as the bubble size and light–emitting mechanism. Previous ArticleNext Article VIEW FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD PDF FiguresRelatedReferencesDetailsCited by (2004) Theories Of Sonoluminescence Sonoluminescence, 10.1201/9780203491959.ch4, Online publication date: 30-Aug-2004. (2004) Single Bubble Sonoluminescence Sonoluminescence, 10.1201/9780203491959.ch3, Online publication date: 30-Aug-2004. Tezel A and Mitragotri S (2003) Interactions of Inertial Cavitation Bubbles with Stratum Corneum Lipid Bilayers during Low-Frequency Sonophoresis, Biophysical Journal, 10.1016/S0006-3495(03)74770-5, 85:6, (3502-3512), Online publication date: 1-Dec-2003. Weninger K, Evans P and Putterman S (2001) Comment on “Mie scattering from a sonoluminescing bubble with high spatial and temporal resolution” [Physical Review E 61 , 5253 (2000)] , Physical Review E, 10.1103/PhysRevE.64.038301, 64:3 Hammer D and Frommhold L (2001) Sonoluminescence: how bubbles glow, Journal of Modern Optics, 10.1080/09500340117525, 48:2, (239-277), Online publication date: 15-Feb-2001. Storey B and Szeri A (2000) Water vapour, sonoluminescence and sonochemistry, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 456:1999, (1685-1709), Online publication date: 8-Jul-2000. Putterman S and Weninger K (2000) Sonoluminescence: How Bubbles Turn Sound into Light, Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 10.1146/annurev.fluid.32.1.445, 32:1, (445-476), Online publication date: 1-Jan-2000. Weninger K, Evans P and Putterman S (2000) Time correlated single photon Mie scattering from a sonoluminescing bubble, Physical Review E, 10.1103/PhysRevE.61.R1020, 61:2, (R1020-R1023) Pecha R and Gompf B (2000) Microimplosions: Cavitation Collapse and Shock Wave Emission on a Nanosecond Time Scale, Physical Review Letters, 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.1328, 84:6, (1328-1330) Kricka L, Stroebel J and Stanley P (1999) Sonoluminescence: 1996-1998, Luminescence, 10.1002/(SICI)1522-7243(199903/04)14:2<107::AID-BIO522>3.0.CO;2-S, 14:2, (107-112), Online publication date: 1-Mar-1999. This Issue15 March 1997Volume 355Issue 1724Discussion Meeting Issue ‘Violent surface motion’ organized by S. D. Howison, J. R. Ockendon, D. H. Peregrine and D. W. Moore Article InformationDOI:https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.1997.0030Published by:Royal SocietyPrint ISSN:1364-503XOnline ISSN:1471-2962History: Published online15/03/1997Published in print15/03/1997 License: Citations and impact