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Probing Black-Hole Physics in the Laboratory Using High Intensity Femtosecond Lasers

G. Schäfer, R. Sauerbrey

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/9805106

Abstract

It is shown how laboratory experiments performed with high intensity femtosecond lasers can probe the physics of black holes in the near-horizon regime. The acceleration generated by the high intensity laser ranging from 1013g to more than 1018g is identified with the gravitational acceleration at stretched horizons. In the black-hole's asymptotic region, the stretched-horizon-reflected light shows a measurable universal phase acceleration of c4/4GM. PACS numbers: 04.70.Bw, 97.60.Lf, 52.40.Nk, 52.50.Jm

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