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We report experimental results on spontaneous periodic surface structures or ripples which occur on the surface of crystalline or ion-implanted semiconductors, using high-power picosecond laser pulses. We suggest that these surface ripples develop as the result of an exponentially growing interaction between the incident laser wave front and a scattered surface optical wave.
Fauchet et al. (Sat,) studied this question.