Monte carlo simulations of large-scale composite random rough-surface scattering based on the banded-matrix iterative approach

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

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 691-696

  Tsang, Leung ^a   Chan, Chi H ^a   Pak, Kyung ^a   Sangani, Haresh ^a   Ishimaru, Akira ^a   Phu, Phillip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ITERATIVE METHODS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

BANDED MATRIX METHOD; BISTATIC SCATTERING;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 0028382833     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.11.000691     Document Type: Article

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