Is self-focusing in vacuum possible?

Alexander M. Fedotov

doi:10.1117/12.751811

19 July 2007 Is self-focusing in vacuum possible?

Alexander M. Fedotov

Proceedings Volume 6726, ICONO 2007: Physics of Intense and Superintense Laser Fields; Attosecond Pulses; Quantum and Atomic Optics; and Engineering of Quantum Information; 67261D (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.751811
Event: The International Conference on Coherent and Nonlinear Optics, 2007, Minsk, Belarus

Abstract

It is argued that, unlike the case of the mutual trapping of several light beams, the selftrapping of a single light beam in the vacuum due to vacuum polarization would require the field strengths much greater than 10¹⁶V/cm and hence can not be observed in the foreseeable future.

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Alexander M. Fedotov "Is self-focusing in vacuum possible?", Proc. SPIE 6726, ICONO 2007: Physics of Intense and Superintense Laser Fields; Attosecond Pulses; Quantum and Atomic Optics; and Engineering of Quantum Information, 67261D (19 July 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.751811

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