[5] He stayed for another year at Toronto on a fellowship, then went to the National Research Council (Canada) in Ottawa to work as a postdoctoral researcher in the spectroscopy laboratory headed by Gerhard Herzberg, where he worked on Raman scattering.

Stoicheff became well known for his Raman spectroscopy through the 1950s, publishing a number of previously unavailable high-resolution molecular spectra.

In 1954, he married his wife Joan, and they had a son, Peter Stoicheff, in 1956 (who would go on to become the President of the University of Saskatchewan).

In the late 1950s, he became interested in Brillouin scattering, and attempted to build a laser, though Theodore Maiman succeeded in doing so first.

Since 2011, the Optical Society of America and the Canadian Association of Physicists sponsors a scholarship in his name that is awarded annually to an undergraduate or graduate student who has demonstrated both research excellence and significant service in either professional organizations.