Mechanism of low-threshold hypersonic cavitation stimulated by broadband laser pump.

A low threshold acoustic cavitation regime was observed for the excitation of hypersonic waves due to a stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) mechanism, when the optical pump lies within the uv frequency range. Cavitation occurs if the optical pump bandwidth Delta(+)>>Omega(0), where Omega(0) is the Stokes frequency shift (the hypersonic frequency). In the opposite case (Delta(+)<