Thank you all so much. Everything is much clearer now - at least I know where I'm heading with this. :)
Dickfore, you've been very helpful. Here where I study, we've never used the term "polariton", but "light exiton", and that why my search hasn't been very productive.
Thanks again.
Hi!
I'd really need someone to tell me if I'm on the right track here. What I need to do is a research on electromagnetic radiation-matter interactions, based on phonon-photon interactions. Does this include any of the following: photoelectric effect, Compton scattering, Rayleigh scattering...