ELECTRON SCATTERING BY AN INTENSE POLARIZED PHOTON FIELD

It was shown that one may expect to obtain on the order of several thousand collimated high-energy scattered pho-tons, and that these quanta retain the polarization of the original beam of optical photons by using existing laser systems and electron accelerators. The total number of scatterings were independent of the duration of the light pulse and depended upon the total light energy per unit area of the beam. (C.E.S.)