Numerical simulations and backscattering enhancement of electromagnetic waves from two-dimensional dielectric random rough surfaces with the sparse-matrix canonical grid method

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

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1515-1529

  Pak, Kyung ^a,c   Tsang, Leung ^a   Johnson, Joel ^b  

^a University of Washington ^*  (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PERMITTIVITY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACES;

BACKSCATTERING ENHANCEMENT; BISTATIC SCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; MATRIX INVERSION METHOD; SPARSE MATRIX CANONICAL GRID METHOD; TWO DIMENSIONAL DIELECTRIC RANDOM ROUGH SURFACES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

EID: 0031189292     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.14.001515     Document Type: Article

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