Further Reading

Abstract

In this final section of the book, it is intended to refer the interested reader to review articles and texts which give a fuller treatment of areas of either experimental practice or theory. Some of these areas will have been introduced in the previous chapters, others represent aspects of Raman spectroscopy not previously discussed. Nonlinear, multi-photon techniques, for example, are being developed by many research groups but have not been included in the main body of the text. A better grasp of fundamental theory is an important aim of any experimentalist, therefore references to molecular dynamics and scattering theory are also included in this section. Neither SERS nor resonance-Raman experiments were mentioned, reviews of these subjects have been published by Chang and Furtak and by Yamada, respectively. The use of circularly-polarized light was briefly treated in Chap. 2, Sect. 12, although the Raman spectroscopy of chiral molecules was not considered. The appropriate theory has been reviewed by Barron, while experimental aspects are discussed in the article by Kiefer.