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There has been considerable interest in the scattering of light from rough surfaces having surface height fluctuations small compared to the illumination wavelength. This case of weak roughness is important in practical applications such as scattering from the residual roughness of polished optical surfaces.1 There has also been interest in scattering from weakly rough metal surfaces when the excitation of surface plasmon polaritons is significant.2,3 Under appropriate conditions, a vertical roughness of only a few nanometers can produce remarkably strong scattering effects arising from polariton excitation. This line of research has been driven more by fundamental interest, and studies have often addressed the unusual features such as backscattering enhancement that appear in the diffuse scattering distributions.
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O’Donnell, K.A. (2007). Small-Amplitude Perturbation Theory for One-Dimensionally Rough Surfaces. In: Maradudin, A.A. (eds) Light Scattering and Nanoscale Surface Roughness. Nanostructure Science and Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35659-4_5
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