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%Shear wave amplitude has been shown to be linearly dependent on laser beam power in thermoelastic and ablative regime. However, at higher amplitude (about 10$^9$ W.cm$^{-2}$ in metals \cite{scruby1990laser}), a plasma occurs and lead to a non-linear amplitude of the displacement with laser energy.  The dependence of the generated shear wave amplitude with laser energy was then investigated by increasing the laser beam energy from 10 to 200 mJ. To increase the signal-to-noise ratio, amplitude have been averaged over four experiments for each energy level. Successive energy levels were randomly chosen to avoid any time-related bias and impact location was changed after each laser emission to avoid any potential local degradation of the medium. Shear wave amplitude was measured as the mean square amplitude between 0 and 10 mm of the medium surface, an arbitrary location where shear waves had high amplitudes. Resulting measurements are illustrated in Figure \ref{figDepEnergy}. Two linear dependences are observed: one from 10 to 30-40 mJ, with a slope of 1.05 (R$^2$=0.87), and one from 30-40 mJ to 200 mJ, with a slope of 2.18 (R$^2$=0.97). This is in accordance with the theory which presents a linear dependence of the displacement with energy in the thermoelastic regime, i.e., at low energy, as described in equation \ref{eq:deplThermoApprox} \ref{eq:deplThermoApprox},  and a quadratic dependence in the ablative regime, i.e., at high energy, as described in equation \ref{eq:deplAblaApprox} .