Self-focusing damage in a pattern of Fresnel fringes is observed in the final element of a high-power glass laser amplifier as the result of the truncation of a Gaussian input beam. Detailed calculations give good agreement with the location and pattern of damage.
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Fleck et al. (1973) studied this question.
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