2012/04/23 by Tor Nordam, Nordam, Tor, Paul Anton Letnes +3
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Color Science and Applications #Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Optical Polarization and Ellipsometry #Optics (physics.optics) #Surface Roughness and Optical Measurements #physics.comp-ph #physics.optics
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1204.4984
14 pages, 7 figures
openalex publication_date 2012/04/23 · arxiv created 2012/05/02 · arxiv updated 2012/05/03 · openalex created_date 2019/06/27 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
A formalism is introduced for the non-perturbative, purely numerical, solution of the reduced Rayleigh equation for the scattering of light from two-dimensional penetrable rough surfaces. As an example, we apply this formalism to study the scattering of p- or s-polarized light from two- dimensional dielectric or metallic randomly rough surfaces by calculating the full angular distribution of the co- and cross-polarized intensity of the scattered light. In particular, we present calculations of the mean differential reflection coefficient for glass and silver surfaces characterized by (isotropic or anisotropic) Gaussian and cylindrical power spectra. The proposed method is found, within the validity of the Rayleigh hypothesis, to give reliable results. For a non-absorbing metal surface the conservation of energy was explicitly checked, and found to be satisfied to within 0.03%, or better, for the parameters assumed. This testifies to the accuracy of the approach and a satisfactory discretization.