Abstract
We use the free-electron laser Hamiltonian to study the statistical properties of the photons emitted in a scattering process between a coherent electromagnetic wave (optical wiggler) and a counterpropagating relativistic electron beam. It is shown that the probability distribution of exchanged photons is binomial and that coherent states are preserved by the free-electron-laser interaction only in the absence of gain.
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