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It is shown that heating of electrons due to the inverse bremsstrahlung absorption of high-power short-pulse laser radiation results in parametric generation of ion-acoustic waves. Dependences of the generation efficiency on the laser pulse duration and intensity are derived. The range of wave numbers where the amplitude of the ion-acoustic oscillations increases by more than an order of magnitude is determined.
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Afanasiev, Y.V., Chichkov, B.N., Isakov, V.A. et al. Fast laser heating of electrons as a source of ion-acoustic oscillations. J Russ Laser Res 21, 34–45 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02539474
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