The dispersion relation for backward-stimulated Brillouin scattering shows that near threshold the most unstable reflected wave rapidly outruns a laser driven underdense plasma. Laser energy absorption may, however, be affected at power flux densities above 1015 Ws/cm2 for 1.06 μ radiation.
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Brueckner et al. (1973) studied this question.
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