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Waves on Corrugated Surfaces: K-Gaps and Enhanced Backscattering

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Several unexpected phenomena involving the propagation of electromagnetic waves on corrugated surfaces arise from high-order processes in the interaction of a photon (or a surface polariton) with the surface corrugations. Although these phenomena are expected to occur for waves of any type, they have been observed and discussed more extensively for visible light.

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  1. Department of Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22901, USA

    V. Celli & P. Tran

  2. Department of Physics and Institute for Surface and Interface Science, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92717, USA

    A. A. Maradudin, Jun Lu & T. Michel

  3. Surface Optics Corporation, P. O. Box 261602, San Diego, CA, 92126, USA

    Zu-Han Gu

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  1. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Elsa Garmire

  2. University of California, Irvine, California, USA

    Alexei A. Maradudin (Chairman) (Chairman)

  3. Estonian Academy of Sciences, Tallinn, Estonia, USSR

    Karl K. Rebane (Chairman) (Chairman)

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Celli, V., Tran, P., Maradudin, A.A., Lu, J., Michel, T., Gu, ZH. (1991). Waves on Corrugated Surfaces: K-Gaps and Enhanced Backscattering. In: Garmire, E., Maradudin, A.A., Rebane, K.K. (eds) Laser Optics of Condensed Matter. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3726-7_44

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