Rough-surface far-field intensity per illuminated length
ID: rough-surface-far-field-intensity-per-illuminated-length
First-order Dirichlet roughness has mean-plane trace , where and . Stationary phase applied to the outgoing angular spectrum evaluates the far-field amplitude at tangential wavenumber . For a stationary surface illuminated over length , the mean squared height transform divided by tends to its power spectrum of surface height. Thus the diffuse intensity samples the spectrum at the tangential momentum transfer. An infinite stationary surface has no finite total far-field amplitude without a window or an intensity-density convention.
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