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Optics Communications

Volume 114, Issues 1–2, 15 January 1995, Pages 13-17
Optics Communications

Backscattering enhancement by subsurface particles

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Abstract

We report a Monte Carlo numerical simulation of backscattering enhancement by inhomogeneities at a metal-vacuum interface. It is shown that the peak is the signature of the weak localization of surface plasmons.

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This work was supported in part by a grant from Saint Gobain and by a fellowship to F.P. from the A.N.R.T. A.S. acknowledges a grant from Société Nationale d'Etudes et de Construction de Moteurs d'Avions and a fellowship from CNRS.

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