Backscattering of an Intense Laser Beam by an Electron

Authors

• Fei He, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• Y.Y. Lau, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• Donald P. Umstadter, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
• Richard Kowalczyk, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

2-7-2003

Comments

Published by American Physical Society. Physical Review Letters, 90, 055002 (2003). http://prl.aps.org. Copyright © 2003 American Physical Society. Permission to use.

Abstract

We present a novel, simple asymptotic expansion for the spectrum of radiation that is backscattered from a laser by a counterpropagating (or copropagating) electron. The solutions are presented in such a way that they explicitly show the relative merit of using an intense laser and of an energetic electron beam in x-ray production in the single particle regime. Simple scaling laws are given.