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Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 1010 - 1013 (1997)

Spectral Changes of Light Scattered from a Bounded Medium with a Random Surface

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T. A. Leskova
Institute of Spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Troitsk, 142092, Russia

A. A. Maradudin and A. V. Shchegrov
Department of Physics and Astronomy and Institute for Surface and Interface Science, University of California, Irvine, California 92697

E. R. Méndez
División de Física Aplicada, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Apartado Postal 2732, Ensenada, Baja California, 22800 México

Received 8 April 1997

We theoretically investigate changes in the spectrum of light scattered from a randomly rough surface that bounds a system supporting several guided modes. The angular dependence of the intensity of light multiply scattered from this system exhibits satellite peaks whose positions are frequency dependent. We show that the spectrum of the scattered light changes dramatically at the angles where the satellite peaks exist. This gives rise to marked features in the position of the maximum of the spectrum of the scattered light as a function of the scattering angle.


©1997 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v79/p1010
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.79.1010
PACS: 42.50.Ar, 03.80.+r, 77.55.+f, 78.20.-e

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