Backscattering enhancement of a two-dimensional random rough surface (three-dimensional scattering) based on monte carlo simulations

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

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 711-715

  Tsang, Leung ^a   Chan, Chi H ^a   Pak, Kyung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; LIGHT SCATTERING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SIMULATION;

SPARCE MATRIX; TOEPLITZ MATRIX;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 0028382622     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.11.000711     Document Type: Article

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