Generation of Compton harmonics by scattering linearly polarized light of arbitrary intensity from free electrons of arbitrary initial velocity

Abstract

We present an analytic classical relativistic derivation for a general expression of the harmonic power generated per unit laboratory solid angle due to Compton scattering of plane wave, linearly polarized light of arbitrary intensity from free electrons moving initially with arbitrary velocity. We show graphically the generated frequency as a function of the coordinates of the observation point for several initial electron kinetic energies and light field intensities.