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Collapse of optical vacuum pulses due to QED nonlinearities

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Abstract

Due to quantum electrodynamical (QED) effects there are nonlinear corrections to Maxwell’s equations in vacuum. We show that stationary two-dimensional light bullets can form, which are unstable and exhibit the possibility of self-focusing collapse.

© 2002 Optical Society of America

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