Light–matter interaction is one of the most basic ways people observe the physical world. While reflection and refraction of light reveal the morphology of matter, inelastic scattering of light, like Raman scattering, encodes the molecular fingerprint of chemical bonds into the energy shift of photons. However, the possibility of such interactions is vanishingly small.
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Source: Phys.org