The Raman effect is the appearance of weak lines in the spectrum of light scattered by a substance which has been illuminated by a monochromatic light (with angular frequency ω).The lines occur close to, and on each side of, the incident light frequency, and hence are optical sidebands. The sidebands arise from the nonlinear interaction of the light with atomic or molecular quantum states in the scattering material. Because this theory was invented by sir C.V. Raman and he got the noble prize for that in physics.