Article | REF: E4156 V1

Optics of material media - Atom, molecules, solids and photons

Authors: Henri BENISTY, Hugo CAYLA

Publication date: August 10, 2024

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2. Interaction of light with matter

2.1 Scattering, reflection, refraction

In this section, we focus first on interactions with "slow" spectral variation of the process concerned; scattering, reflection and refraction phenomena fall into this category, whereas absorption or emission, which are more often spectrally "resonant", will be dealt with separately in paragraph 2.2 .

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