Inverse Problems in Optical Scattering

Eugenio Méndez (1) , Demetrio Macías (2)

1 División de Física Aplicada, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada
2 LNIO - Laboratoire de Nanotechnologie et d'Instrumentation Optique

One of the main motivations for studying rough surface scattering problems consists in the desire to obtain information about the surface. The information obtained can be of a varied nature. One may be interested, for instance, on the surface profile function, on the optical properties of the surface, or, for random surfaces, on some statistical parameter of the height fluctuations. These are all inverse scattering problems. This chapter contains a review of some aspects of this broad field.

Domains: Optics / Photonic

Eugenio Méndez, Demetrio Macías. Inverse Problems in Optical Scattering. A.A. Maradudin. Light Scattering and Nanoscale Surface Roughness, Springer, pp.435-465, 2007, Nanostructure Science and Technology, ⟨10.1007/978-0-387-35659-4_16⟩. ⟨hal-02869521⟩