Abstract
The idea of producing a high-energy photon-photon collider1, based on Compton backscattering of laser photons from an electron beam, was proposed in the early 1980's. In this idea, a linear e+ e- collider must be upgraded with high power lasers and an interaction region including optics to focus the laser pulses onto the electron beam. Recently, a strawman design for such an interaction region has been produced. Given the existence of the mothballed Stanford Linear Collider it becomes reasonable to propose a photon collider test bed, which would allow that design to be tested in actual operational conditions.
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