https://doi.org/10.1007/s100530050535
Search for stimulated photon-photon scattering in vacuum
1
Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et des Hautes Énergies,
École Polytechnique, IN2P3 & CNRS, 91128 Palaiseau, France
2
Laboratoire de Physique, École Normale Supérieure, 94235
Cachan, France
3
Laboratoire pour l'Utilisation des Lasers Intenses (Unité
mixte N 7605 du CNRS-CEA-École Polytechnique-Université
Paris 6.) , École Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France
4
Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée, CNRS & ENSTA, École
Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France
5
Dipartimento di Fisica-Pisa and INFN, Piazza Torricelli 2, 56100 Pisa, Italy
Received:
29
September
1999
Published online: 15 April 2000
We have searched for stimulated photon scattering in vacuum at a
center of mass photon energy of 0.8 eV.
The QED contribution to this process is equivalent to four wave
mixing in vacuum.
No evidence for 
scattering was observed.
The corresponding upper limit of the cross-section is
.
PACS: 13.85.Dz – Elastic scattering / 12.20.Fv – Experimental tests / 78.45.+h – Stimulated emission
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2000
