{"id":1105,"date":"2018-04-11T14:49:09","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T19:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2018-04-11T14:49:09","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T19:49:09","slug":"the-interaction-of-acoustic-phonons-and-photons-in-the-solid-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/?p=1105","title":{"rendered":"The interaction of acoustic phonons and photons in the solid state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><br \/>\n<em>by<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Ian Douglas Winters<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Bachelor of Science in Materials Science and Engineering<\/em><br \/>\n<em>University of Tennessee<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/files\/The interaction of acoustic phonons and photons in the solid state.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read the whole article<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/files\/The interaction of acoustic phonons and photons in the solid state.zip\" target=\"_blank\">Download the ZIP file<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><br \/>\nWhen light and sound simultaneously pass through a medium, the acoustic phonons of the sound wave scatter the photons of the light beam.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This scattering of light from acoustic modes is called Brillouin scattering.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">More specifically, Brillouin light scattering is the nonlinear, inelastic scattering of an incident optical field by thermally or acoustically excited elastic waves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The nonlinear nature of the scattering is caused by the nonlinearity of the medium, particularly that part of the linearity expression that is related to acoustic phonons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This type of scattering occurs when an optical wave in solid or liquid nledium interacts with density variations and diffracts, or changes its path.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These density variations may be due to acoustic modes or temperature gradients.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first significant study of the interaction of light and sound was carried out by Mandelstam in 1918; however, he did not publish his work until 1926.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Brillouin, after whom the effect is named, independently predicted light scattering from acoustic waves in 1922.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/files\/The interaction of acoustic phonons and photons in the solid state.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read the whole article<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/files\/The interaction of acoustic phonons and photons in the solid state.zip\" target=\"_blank\">Download the ZIP file<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">. by Ian Douglas Winters Bachelor of Science in Materials Science and Engineering University of Tennessee<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"> . 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