Because of an error in calorimetry, the irradiances quoted in the figures and text of this paper are too large by a factor of 1.7.There are no changes in the conclusions.It is significant, however, that the observed smoothing of laser nonuniformities occurs at a lower irradiance than was originally reported.
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Obenschain et al. (1982) studied this question.