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Jun 5, 2018 at 23:37 comment added Ján Lalinský Ok, that's an interesting distinction.
Jun 5, 2018 at 23:00 comment added Emilio Pisanty Nope, that's a separate effect - sequential or semi-sequential multiphoton ionization, which can happily run on low-pressure gases that are too rarefied to support avalanches. To see the details of the mechanism you refer to, the answer to refer to is a previous answer of mine, the final link in my answer here.
Jun 5, 2018 at 21:47 comment added Ján Lalinský @EmilioPisanty I did not, it wasn't that interesting to me to do research on this. See my2cts's answer for practical details on this effect.
Jun 4, 2018 at 9:54 comment added Emilio Pisanty Well, did you check whether a suitably strong IR laser can actually achieve that effect? Or indeed to research the question at all?
May 26, 2018 at 7:35 history answered Ján Lalinský CC BY-SA 4.0