Enhanced backscattering of polarized light at vacuum/dielectric interface

Zu-Han Gu; Jun Q. Lu; Mohammad M. Tehrani

doi:10.1117/12.202060

1 June 1995 Enhanced backscattering of polarized light at vacuum/dielectric interface

Zu-Han Gu, Jun Q. Lu, Mohammad M. Tehrani

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 34, Issue 6, (June 1995). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.202060

Abstract

It has been well recognized that, if the incident electromagnetic wave is linearly polarized parallel or perpendicular to grooves of a surface, the far-field scattering from a 1-D rough surface will have an identical polarization. We present recent experimental results and the comparative theoretical analysis that cover the enhanced backscattering from a characterized randomly rough 1-D vacuum/dielectric interface for p and s polarizations. It is believed that the observed enhanced backscattering results from the coherent interference of multiply scattered optical paths with their time-reversed partners when the wave vectors of the incident and scattered light are oppositely directed. This coherency is lost for scattering into directions other than the retroreflection direction.

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Zu-Han Gu, Jun Q. Lu, and Mohammad M. Tehrani "Enhanced backscattering of polarized light at vacuum/dielectric interface," Optical Engineering 34(6), (1 June 1995). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.202060

Published: 1 June 1995

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