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The self-trapping of laser beams in underdense plasmas or the propagation of laser beams in preformed favorable electron density distributions can be accompanied by gross distortions of pulse shape and spectrum. A simple theory is used to estimate the magnitude of these effects.
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Feit et al. (1976) studied this question.
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