Harmonic enhancement of single-bubble sonoluminescence

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2003 May;67(5 Pt 2):056310. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.67.056310. Epub 2003 May 22.

Abstract

It is known from experiment that the light emission from a sonoluminescing bubble can be increased by using more than one driving frequency. In this paper, a systematic method to determine the optimal conditions of pressure amplitude and relative phase for this effect is described. As a specific application, a two-frequency system--26.5 kHz and 53 kHz--is considered. It is found that the maximum temperatures achievable can be appreciably increased with respect to single-frequency drive, still maintaining spherical stability, provided the dissolved inert gas concentration is kept extremely low in order to maintain diffusive stability.