title: Enhanced backscattering at grazing angles.
abstract: Backscattering signals at small grazing angles are important for space vehicle atmospheric reentrance and subsurface radar sensing applications. They are also useful in Fourier-transform infrared grazing-angle microscopy. Recently we performed an experimental study of far-field scattering at small grazing angles, in particular, of enhanced backscattering at grazing angles. For a randomly weak rough dielectric film upon a reflecting metal substrate, a large enhanced backscattering peak was measured. Experimental results are compared with small perturbation theoretical predictions.
authors.forename: Zu-Han
authors.initials: ZH
authors.lastname: Gu
authors.forename: I M
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Fuks
authors.forename: Mikael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ciftan