Sonoluminescence: nature’s smallest blackbody
Type: Generic Title: Sonoluminescence:ânatureâs smallest blackbody Author(s): Vazquez, G.; Camara, C.; Putterman, S.; Weninger, K. Date: 2001/05/01 Abstract: The transduction of sound into light through the implosion of a bubble of gas leads to a flash of light whose duration is delineated in picoseconds. Combined measurements of spectral irradiance, Mie scattering, and flash width (as determined by time-correlated single-photon counting) suggest that sonoluminescence from hydrogen and noble-gas bubbles is radiation from a blackbody with temperatures ranging from 6000 KH2 to 20,000ââKââ(He) and a surface of emission whose radius ranges from 0.1 μmHe to 0.4 μmXe. The state of matter that would admit photonâmatter equilibrium under such conditions is a mystery. Publisher: Optical Society of America Journal (full): Optics Letters Volume: 26 Issue: 9 Start Page: 575 End Page: 577 Link: http://www.osapublishing.org/abstract.cfm?uri=ol-26-9-575 Link (PDF): http://www.osapublishing.org/viewmedia.cfm?uri=ol-26-9-575&seq=0 Link (full): http://www.osapublishing.org/viewmedia.cfm?uri=ol-26-9-575&seq=0&html=true