Grazing angle enhanced backscattering from a dielectric film on a reflecting metal substrate

Optical Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 559-567

  Gu, Zu Han ^a   Fuks, I M ^b   Ciftan, Mikael ^c  

^a SURFACE OPTICS CORPORATION   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c U S ARMY RESEARCH OFFICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coherence effect; Enhanced backscattering effect; Rough surface scattering

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC FILMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; LIGHT REFLECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METALS; RADAR; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

GRAZING ANGLE ENHANCED BACKSCATTERING; RADAR SENSING; REFLECTING METAL SUBSTRATE; TWO SCALE SURFACE ROUGHNESS SCATTERING MODEL;

BACKSCATTERING;

EID: 2342527857     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1646410     Document Type: Article

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