Nagaraj Nagalingam,1 Aswin Raghunathan,1 Vikram Korede,1 Christian Poelma,1 Carlas S. Smith,2 Remco Hartkamp,1 Johan T. Padding,1 and Hseyin Burak Eral 1,*

We demonstrate that a cavitation bubble initiated by a Nd:YAG laser pulse below breakdown threshold induces crystallization from supersaturated aqueous solutions with supersaturation and laser-energy -dependent nucleation kinetics. Combining high-speed video microscopy and simulations, we argue that a competition between the dissipation of absorbed laser energy as latent and sensible heat dictates the solvent evaporation rate and creates a momentary supersaturation peak at the vapor-liquid interface. The number and morphology of crystals correlate to the characteristics of the simulated supersaturation peak.