Electromagnetic mechanism in surface-enhanced Raman scattering from Gaussian-correlated randomly rough metal substrates

Optics Express

Volumn 10, Issue 17, 2002, Pages 879-886

  Sánchez Gil, José A ^a   García Ramos, José V ^a   Méndez, Eugenio R ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE ESTRUCTURA DE LA MATERIA   (Spain)

^b Div Fis Apl Ctro I   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETISM; FUNCTIONS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; SPECTROSCOPY; STATISTICAL METHODS; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

DIELECTRIC DIFFUSERS; SELF-AFFINE FRACTALS; SURFACE-ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS);

RAMAN SCATTERING;

EID: 0242503194     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.10.000879     Document Type: Article

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