  A model independent theoretical analysis of recent experimental data on
deuteron photodisintegration with polarized laser beams is presented. We find
that it is important to distinguish between the three isovector E1 amplitudes
$E1_v^j$ in reaction channels with total angular momentum $j=0,1,2$ and that
the isoscalar M1 amplitude $M1_s$ is non-zero in the photon energy range $3.5
MeV < E_\gamma < 10 MeV$
