Light scattering from self-affine fractal silver surfaces with nanoscale cutoff: Far-field and near-field calculations

Details Light scattering from self-affine fractal silver surfaces with nanoscale cutoff: Far-field and near-field calculations Light scattering from self-affine fractal silver surfaces with nanoscale cutoff: Far-field and near-field calculations

2001-08-23

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0108370v1

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 19, 902-911 (2002)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

REVTeX 4, 10 pages

Scientific paper

10.1364/JOSAA.19.000902

We study the light scattered from randomly rough, one-dimensional self-affine fractal silver surfaces with nanoscale lower cutoff, illuminated by s- or p-polarized Gaussian beams a few microns wide. By means of rigorous numerical calculations based on the Green theorem integral equation formulation, we obtain both the far- and near-field scattered intensities. The influence of diminishing the fractal lower scale cutoff (from below a hundred, down to a few nanometers) is analyzed in the case of both single realizations and ensemble average magnitudes. For s polarization, variations are small in the far field, being only significant in the higher spatial frequency components of evanescent character in the near field. In the case of p polarization, however, the nanoscale cutoff has remarkable effects stemming from the roughness-induced excitation of surface-plasmon polaritons. In the far field, the effect is noticed both in the speckle pattern variation and in the decrease of the total reflected energy upon ensemble averaging, due to increased absorption. In the near field, more efficient excitation of localized optical modes is achieved with smaller cutoff, which in turn leads to huge surface electric field enhancements.

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