Phys. Rev. A 55, 3678–3683 (1997)Ponderomotive scattering of electrons in intense laser fieldsReceived 19 July 1996; published in the issue dated May 1997 We derive, using the classical Hamilton-Jacobi theory, exact and general relativistic expressions for the ponderomotive scattering angles of an electron which is incident initially with an arbitrary velocity on the focal region of a laser pulse of arbitrary intensity, polarization, and pulse shape. The result is used to analyze the experimental data recently obtained by Meyerhofer et al. [J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 13, 113 (1996)] and to predict the ponderomotive scattering angles for very high incident energies as envisaged in laser-accelerator experiments. © 1997 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.55.3678
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.55.3678
PACS:
42.50.Vk, 42.65.Ky, 52.75.Di
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