Numerical studies of backscattering enhancement of electromagnetic waves from two-dimensional random rough surfaces with the forward-backward/novel spectral acceleration method

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 2518-2526

  Torrungrueng, Danai ^a   Johnson, Joel T ^a  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BACKSCATTERING; ITERATIVE METHODS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SURFACE PHENOMENA;

SPECTRAL ACCELERATION METHOD;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

EID: 0010133874     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.18.002518     Document Type: Article

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