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The expansions and contractions of an absorbing medium resulting from the passage of an intensity-modulated laser are utilized to form a thermoacoustic array producing a highly directional acoustic wave propagating perpendicular to the axis of the laser beam.
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Westervelt et al. (1973) studied this question.
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