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I've seen an off-hand reference to Raman being a Lambertian source and it's been tripping me up. My understanding is that on the molecular level the laser is exciting the vibrational mode of a bond which results in a higher virtual electron state. Within a few picoseconds the vibrational mode decay ...

We ended up getting our machined aluminum base plate from PCB way and it was pretty painless.The final price was in the ballpark of $150 with the tapping (and we splurged for black anodized). We also had a the cuvette holder parts printed with them which came out better than I was expecting but stil...