It is shown that when an intense, focused laser beam interacts with a dense plasma, relativistic effects may lead to observable synchrotron-like x-ray emission. For currently achievable Nd:glass laser intensities, the detectability of 10 keV x rays is expected to be enhanced by anisotropy of the source and by strong polarization.
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Waltz et al. (1978) studied this question.
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