Laser induced cavitation: plasma generation and breakdown shockwave
Laser induced cavitation is one of the effective techniques to generate controlled cavitation bubbles, both for basic study and for applications
in different fields of engineering and medicine. Unfortunately, control of bubble formation and symmetry is hardly achieved due to
a series of concurrent causes. In particular, the need to focus the laser beam at the bubble formation spot leads, in general, to a conical
region proximal to the light source where conditions are met for plasma breakdown. A finite sized region then exists where the electric