Limitations on the attainable intensity of high power lasers
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2014-11-20 v1 Optics
Plasma Physics
Quantum Physics
Abstract
It is shown that even a single pair created by a super strong laser field in vacuum would cause development of an avalanche-like QED cascade which rapidly depletes the incoming laser pulse. This confirms the old N. Bohr conjecture that the electric field of the critical QED strength could never be created.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1004.5398,
title = {Limitations on the attainable intensity of high power lasers},
author = {A. M. Fedotov and N. B. Narozhny and G. Mourou and G. Korn},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.5398},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
4 pages, 3 figures