Ultraintense lasers: When light is denser than mater

• Autores: Luis Roso Franco
• Localización: Óptica pura y aplicada, ISSN-e 2171-8814, Vol. 44, Nº. 3 (SEP), 2011 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Óptica no lineal), págs. 387-396
• Idioma: español
• Títulos paralelos:
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  • español

    Laser peak intensity is today close to 10 23 W/cm2. This is a monster intensity that has a lot of practical applications and theoretical implications. In particular we start to consider that there is a fundamental upper limit of the intensity attainable for a laser beam were vacuum becomes unstable, and maybe this limit is experimentally not too far. Because of this a new branch of optics, the so-called extreme optics is in progress.

  • English

    Laser peak intensity is today close to 1023 W/cm2. This is a monster intensity that has a lot of practical applications and theoretical implications. In particular we start to consider that there is a fundamental upper limit of the intensity attainable for a laser beam were vacuum becomes unstable, and maybe this limit is experimentally not too far. Because of this a new branch of optics, the socalled extreme optics is in progress