At high laser intensities, three step recollision processes such as
high order harmonic generation and high-order ATI, are normally
severely suppressed due to the magnetic field component of the laser
pulse. However, if the laser pulse and relativistic ion beam are
directed against each other, a significant increase in the frequency
and the intensity of the pulse in the rest frame of the ions can occur.
By performing calculations based on a Coulomb-corrected nondipole
strong field approximation, we have shown that there is a range of
intensities, Lorentz factors, and ion charges for which the suppression
of the three step recollision processes is not severe, even for
ponderomotive energies exceeding 10 keV. As an example, we consider
parameters relevant to the accelerator that will be built at
GSI-Darmstadt, capable of accelerating multicharged ions to Lorentz
factors reaching 30.