Within this paper we propose a versatile Brillouin technique which allows an easy determination of acoustic and opto-acoustic properties of thin films. This new technique is especially suitable for studying acoustic dispersion behaviour at hypersonic frequencies. Typical applications in the field of polymers have been used to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed scattering technique.
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