“…When the acoustic energy leakage of ZGV Lamb modes to the air is negligible and the plate surfaces are parallel, these ZGV Lamb modes generated and detected by lasers are good candidates to probe locally the ultrasonic attenuation of the plate. This idea was followed in 2008 by measuring the decay time of the first ZGV Lamb mode below 10 MHz in copper, duralumin, and steel plates [24] and, later, at higher frequencies (∼2 GHz), in samples of tungsten with thicknesses in the micrometer range [25]. This decay time is closely related to the quality factor of the local ZGV resonance, the measure of which could therefore also give access to the local ultrasonic attenuation [11,15] or else to the structural adhesive bonding in multi-layer assemblies [26].…”