Abstract

Stimulated Compton scattering (SOS) is of significant, current interest because it is the fundamental process in a free-electron laser (FEL) operating in the Compton regime.¹ In this paper we consider two oppositely propagating lights to be scattered by a relativistic electron moving along the same line. The two lights are both in coherent states initially and are of quite different frequencies in the laboratory frame. We will describe the system in a frame moving along the same direction as the electron, in which the two frequencies of the light, become identical due to Doppler effect. We consider only a. narrow range of the speed of the electron such that it is nonrelativistic in the moving frame adopted and still has an initial momentum much greater than that of photon. This is essentially the same as the so-called Bambini-Renieri frame populous in free-electron laser theory. Our main interest is to see whether the nonclassical phenomena such as squeezing and photon antibunching occur as a result, of SCS.

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