Clayton et al. Respond

Authors

• C.E. Clayton, University of California, Los Angeles
• C. Joshi, University of California, Los Angeles
• C. Darrow, University of California, Los Angeles
• Donald P. Umstadter, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

10-7-1985

Comments

Published by American Physical Society. Physical Review Letters 55 1652 (1985). http://prl.aps.org. Copyright © 1985 American Physical Society. Permission to use.

Abstract

Clayton et al. Respond: The authors of the Comment are quite correct when they point out that the ruby-laser scattering system used in our study can only respond to beat-excited density fluctuations with k_y = k₂, where the CO₂ (ruby) beam propagates in the z (y) direction.