Light Scattering in Solids

Section I Hydrodynamic Instabilities and Critical Phenomena.- To Scale or not to Scale? — The Puzzle at the Lambda Point of Liquid 4He.- Transition to Turbulence in Couette-Taylor Flow.- Hydrodynamic Instabilities and Turbulence.- Light Scattering from Gels and a Single Polymer Chain near Phase Transitions.- Interferometric Studies of Thick Film Critical Behavior.- Section II Physics in Two Dimensions and Defects.- Melting and Liquid Crystals in Two Dimensions.- Light Scattering Studies of Molecular Orientation Fluctuations in Two Dimensions.- Multiphonon Boundary of the Excitation Spectrum.- Raman Scattering Spectra of Proustite and Pyrargyrite Crystals in Low Temperature Phases.- Finite Field Local Field Catastrophe — Application to the Spectra of KCNxCl1?x.- The Effect of Long Range Fluctuations in Impurity Potential on the Electron Light Scattering in Heavily Doped Semiconductors.- Resonant Scattering and Trapping of 29 cm?1 Acoustic Phonons in Ruby Crystals.- Section III Non-Local and Transient Phenomena.- Some Aspects of the Theory of Surface Polaritons.- Recent Developments in Non-Local Optics.- Resonant Brillouin Scattering of Exciton Polaritons.- Ultraslow Optical Dephasing of Pr3+:LaF3.- Picosecond Raman Gain Studies of Molecular Vibrations on a Surface.- Section IV Spins and Excitons.- Brillouin-Mandelstam Scattering of Light in Antiferromagnetic CoCO3.- Observation of Pure Spin Diffusion Without Charge Transport by Spin Flip Raman Scattering.- Spin-Flip Scattering from Photoexcited Excitons in SiC.- The Scattering of Light by Spin Waves on Ferromagnetic Surfaces.- Relaxation of Energy and Polarization in the Resonant Secondary Emission Spectra of Semiconductors.- Resonant Raman Scattering from Stress-Split Forbidden Excitons in CU2O.- Low FrequencyExciton and Raman Scattering Spectra of CoCO3.- Theoretical and Experimental Determinations of Raman Scattering Cross Sections in Simple Solids.- Section V Resonance Scattering and Charge Excitations.- Resonant Secondary Emission by Impurities in Crystals.- The Raman Scattering and Hot Luminescence of Self-Trapping Excitons.- Phenomenological Description of Light Scattering and Thermal Radiation.- Raman Scattering from Plasmon-Phonon Coupled Modes in GaP.- Interaction Between Localized Carriers in the Accumulation Layer and Extended Bulk LO Phonons in InSb and GaSb: Raman Interference Lineshapes.- Inelastic Light Scattering by the Two Dimensional Electrons in Semiconductor Heterojunction Superlattices.- On the Distinction Between Resonant Scattering and Hot Luminescence: Application of Theory to Experiment.- Section VI Phase Transitions.- Light Scattering Near Structural Phase Transition Points in Pure Crystals and in Crystals Containing Defects.- Raman Scattering From Charge Density Waves and Superconducting Gap Excitations in 2H-TaSe2 and 2H-NbSe2.- Quasielastic Light Scattering Near Structural Phase Transitions.- High Resolution X-Ray and Light Scattering Spectroscopy of Liquid Crystals.- Optics and Electrooptics of Chiral Smectics.- The Size, Shape and Polydisperity of Micelles of Amphiphillic Molecules.- Resonance Raman Studies of Visual Pigments.- A Nanosecond Probe of Hemoglobin Dynamics Using Time Resolved Resonance Raman Scattering.- Section VII Multi-Photon Spectroscopy.- Recent Results in Four-Photon Spectroscopy of Condensed Media.- Recent Progress in Four-Wave Mixing Spectroscopy in Crystals.- Coherent Raman Ellipsometry of Liquid Water: New Data on the Vibrational Stretching Region.- Time Resolved Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering in Weakly DisorderedMolecular Crystals.- Intense Light Resonance Scattering: Spectra and Photon Correlations.- Section VIII Resonance Scattering and Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering.- Intensity Effects in Resonance Light Scattering.- The Spontaneous Diffraction of Light by Resonance Atoms.- Giant Raman Scattering by Molecules Adsorbed on Metals: an Overview.- Raman Spectroscopy of Molecular Monolayers in Inelastic Electron Tunneling Spectroscopy Junctions.- A Theory of “Giant Raman Scattering” by Adsorbed Molecules on Metal Surfaces.- Concluding Remarks.- Participants.- Author Index.