Calculation of Smooth-Surface Statistics from the BRDF

doi:10.1117/3.203079.ch4

Book: Optical Scattering: Measurement and Analysis, Second Edition

Author(s): John C. Stover

Published: 1995

https://doi.org/10.1117/3.203079.ch4

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Abstract

Chapters 2 and 3 have revealed the surface power spectral density function as the logical path to move back and forth between surface topography and surface scatter. This chapter concentrates on application of the Rayleigh-Rice relationships to the inverse-scatter problem: the calculation of reflector surface statistics from measured scatter data. This is important because a number of industrial surfaces meet the smooth, clean, front-surface-reflective requirements introduced in Chapter 1, and in these cases, scatter measurement can be used as a fast, noncontact method of microroughness characterization. The special cases of one-dimensional gratinglike surfaces and isotropic two-dimensional surfaces receive most of the attention. The conversion of the Rayleigh-Rice diffraction result to the Davies-Bennett TIS relationship is also reviewed. Other than the scatter measurement geometry, the details of how the scatter data is obtained is left for Chapter 6. Chapters 1, 2, and 3 are used as source material. 4.1 Practical Application of the Rayleigh-Rice Perturbation Theory The use of scatter data as a means of specifying reflector surface quality is a powerful noncontact inspection technique. Of particular interest is the inverse scatter problem where BRDF data is used to calculate the PSD and the various surface parameters of interest. Equation (3.43), introduced in Sec. 3.3, gives the general relationship between the PSD of an arbitrary, smooth, clean, front-surface reflector and the corresponding scatter pattern or BRDF. In Eq. (4.1), the terms have been rearranged so that the BRDF is given directly in terms of measurement and sample parameters. BRDF=dPâdÎ© P i cosÎ¸ s =16Ï 2 Î» 4 cosÎ¸ i cosÎ¸ s QS(f x ,f y ).