Comment on "Vacuum electron acceleration by coherent dipole radiation".
Troha et al. [Phys. Rev. E 60, 926 (1999)] put forward a generalized Lawson-Woodward theorem in the study of laser accelerations. We point out that one of the assumptions used in their proof does not stand on a solid physical ground and that it is possible for electrons to obtain net energy gains from a plane-wave laser pulse in vacuum even if the radiation reaction effects are neglected.
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