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By use of a hydrocode it is shown that the interaction of high-intensity light with an expanding plasma surface produces a positive plasma cloud followed by a negative plasma cloud. This result, which is opposite to that without the laser light, is the result of the non-linear (ponderomotive) force.
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Hora et al. (1984) studied this question.
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