Abstract
Despite a long history, the Raman scattering coefficient of water has so far only been measured with 10% uncertainty using a 95% confidence interval. In this paper, we present an experiment where we have achieved 1.5% uncertainty by using a low concentration of Rhodamine 6G in ethanol as a reference along with accurate consideration of polarization-related effects and the geometry of the experimental setup. We have found that the photon-to-photon Raman scattering coefficient of the OH stretching band of liquid water is when integrated over the spectral frequency range from 620 to 700 nm while the exciting laser operates at 532 nm. We have also accurately measured the depolarization ratio across this band.
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