On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Sean Breheny wrote:
>
> Please excuse my ignorance, but what is Thompson Scattering?

        It's usually used to measure the temperature of plasmas; you run a
laser beam through the plasma to be measured, and measure the doppler
shifts caused by scattering off of moving particles. I'm not actually sure
whether it would work for a solid surface.

        Pierce

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