Brillouin Spectroscopy


Brillouin spectroscopy is an empirical technique which allows for the determination of elastic moduli for a given material. The technique uses inelastic scattering of light when it encounters acoustic phonons in a crystal, a process known as Brillouin scattering, to determine phonon energies and therefore interatomic potentials of a material (Polian, 2003). The scattering occurs when an electromagnetic wave interacts with a density wave, photon-phonon scattering.