  We report the initial considerations of using linearly polarized optical
transition radiation (OTR) to characterize the electron beams of laser plasma
accelerators (LPAs) such as at the Univ. of Texas at Austin. The two LPAs
operate at 100 MeV and 2-GeV, and they currently have estimated normalized
emittances at ~ 1-mm mrad regime with beam divergences less than 1/{\gamma} and
beam sizes to be determined at the micron level. Analytical modeling results
indicate the feasibility of using these OTR techniques for the LPA
applications.
