Linked to the earlier research here, last November. But I think this could do with its own thread. Here is a more recent study.
Think you understand evaporation? Think again, says MIT
We all know that water evaporates when the temperature climbs, but researchers have just shown that there's another factor at play. The breakthrough could…
newatlas.com
Doing some quick number-crunching shows that the latent heat of vaporisation for water is 0.423 eV per molecule. This is actually quite high compared to most liquids.
The energy of a single photon of green light is somewhere around 2.18–2.37 eV (depending on the hue of green). So there is more than enough spare energy in the light for evaporation, depending on the absorption mechanism.
Water molecules have quite a number of different vibrational modes, so the absorption mechanism could be quite complex.