title: Enhanced transmission through rough-metal surfaces.
abstract: The enhanced-transmission effect, manifested as a narrow peak in the angular distribution of the intensity of diffuse scattered light in the antispecular direction, was experimentally investigated by passage of a p-polarized laser beam through a metal film deposited upon a glass substrate. The peak is the analog of enhanced backscattering in the reflection of light from a randomly rough-metal surface. A fully automated, bidirectional reflectometer was used to measure the enhanced transmission of surfaces coated with gold and silver under illumination by a He-Ne laser. The experimental results are compared with those obtained recently by a perturbation theory of the localization of surface polaritons.
authors: Z H
authors: ZH
authors: Gu
authors: R S
authors: RS
authors: Dummer
authors: A A
authors: AA
authors: Maradudin
authors: A R
authors: AR
authors: McGurn
authors: E R
authors: ER
authors: Mendez