The effect of laser light having Gaussian spatial and temporal variations upon ion-acoustic waves is investigated analytically. At high power densities this light can interfere with coherent propagating waves in addition to exciting waves streamers which propagate away from the perturbed region at the ion sound velocity.
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Peratt et al. (1977) studied this question.
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