Introduction

We start with the discovery of sonoluminescence in 1933, and then the independent discoveries of single bubble sonoluminescence in 1962 in Japan and in 1970 and 1990 in the USA.

Any treatise on sonoluminescence must be built on bubble dynamics and an account of this is included in Chapter 1. This leads on to the important basic subjects of Bjerknes forces, rectified diffusion, and sound emission from a bubble.