Limitations on the attainable intensity of high power lasers

Abstract

It is shown that even a single $e^{-}{e}^{+}$ 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 $E_S=m^2{c}^3/e\hslash$ could never be created.

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