The WiZard is In - 24-12-2010 at 11:05
As promised this from :—
Bowden and Yoffe
Fast Reactions in Solids
Academic Press 1958
Chapter VI Ignition of Explosion by Light
You will find a 'hole bunch of patents on this subject.
I use Google.com/patents as the patents are in PDF format.
A hard to find for sale - interesting book.