title: Synthetic spectra from rough-surface scattering.
abstract: We present a method for designing a one-dimensional, deterministic, perfectly conducting rough surface that scatters light at a fixed scattering angle with an intensity whose dependence on the frequency of a plane wave incident normally upon it reproduces the infrared spectrum of a known substance within a specified region of frequencies. Such a surface can therefore be used in a correlation spectrometer for the identification of unknown substances.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy and Institute for Surface and Interface Science, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA.
authors.forename: Tamara A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Leskova
authors.forename: Alexei A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Maradudin