Many authors have stated that electrostrictive self-trapping of the light beam initiates laser damage in solid transparent dielectrics. By systematically varying composition, it may be possible to find a glass in which electrostrictive effects are eliminated.
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Roy M. Waxler (1971) studied this question.
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