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The spatial distribution of the temperature rise induced by a laser beam absorbed in a solid is reduced to a one-dimensional integral which is evaluated numerically. The solution for a general laser intensity distribution is specialized to the case of a Gaussian beam. A closed-form expression in terms of tabulated functions is obtained for the maximum temperature rise.
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M. Lax (1977) studied this question.