Abstract. Recently J. P. Vigier showed [1] that the photon can be represented as a solitary electromagnetic wave — a soliton. As a consequence one can ascribe to such a solition effective volume, amplitude and frequency which coincide with the frequency of de Broglie's wave (measured by interference phenomena). In this paper we propose a soliton-like model for the photon. We show that the electromagnetic amplitude, the volume, the classical cross-section and the photoeffect cross-section of the photon-soliton can be estimated in an empirical as well as in an analytical way. In the framework of our model the relation between the electromagnetic amplitude of the soliton and its frequency that we found seems to be an universal one, in sense that it may not depend on the specific quantum system considered. We show that there are no essential contradictions between our photon-soliton and some well-known facts such as the interactions in the case of photoeffect and Compton effect.

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