Application To Generation of Pulsed Hard Radiation
When a laser pulse passes an electron the electron is shaken heavily, but afterwards it flies on as if nothing has happened, though a little bit of Compton scattering has taken place. Additionally an electron can either enter or leave an atom and in this process the electron can either emit an X-ray photon or absorb an X-ray photon. In a complex situation with an atom, an electron, and a laser pulse, either the energy of the X-ray photon depends on the electric field of the laser pulse at the time of creation or the energy of the electron depends on the electric field of the laser pulse at the time of leaving the atom. This is called either pulsed X-ray generation or attosecond transient recorder. Though the atom and the laser pulse interact in various ways, this is ignored here (see high harmonic generation instead).
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