The Design of Random Surfaces with Specified Scattering Properties: Surfaces that Suppress Leakage

1999/09/09 by A. A. Maradudin, Maradudin, A. A., I. Simonsen +5
Physics and Astronomy · #Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn) #FOS: Physical sciences #cond-mat.dis-nn

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/9909141

Revtex 6 pages (including 4 figures)

arxiv created 1999/09/09 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

We present a method for generating a one-dimensional random metal surface of finite length L that suppresses leakage, i.e. the roughness-induced conversion of a surface plasmon polariton propagating on it into volume electromagnetic waves in the vacuum above the surface. Perturbative and numerical simulation calculations carried out for surfaces generated in this way show that they indeed suppress leakage.

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