Scattering in Volumes and Surfaces

Part I: Volume Scattering. Experimental and theoretical studies on enhanced hackscattering from scatterers and rough surfaces (A. Ishimaru). Multiple scattering in dynamic systems (I. Freund). Dynamics of Brownian particles from strongly multiple light scattering (P.E. Wolf, G. Maret). Multiple scattering in dense media (P. Bruscaglioni, G. Zaccanti). Role of the inner scale of atmospheric turbulence in optical propagation and methods to measure it (A. Consortini). Diffraction tomography: Potentials and problems (L.-J. Gelius, J.J. Stamnes). The physical optics of enhanced backscattering (E. Jakeman). Part II: Surface Scattering. Scattering experiments with smoothly varying random rough surfaces and their interpretation (E.R. Mendez, K.A. O'Donnell). Measurements of angular scattering by randomly rough metal and dielectric surfaces (J.C. Dainty, M.-J. Kim, A.J. Sant). Backscattering effects in the elastic scattering of p-polarized light from a large amplitude random grating (A.A. Maradudin, E.R. Mendez, T. Michel). Electromagnetic scattering from very rough random surfaces and its connections with blazes from reflection gratings (M. Nieto-Vesperinas, J.M. Soto-Crespo). Rigorous solution of problems of scattering by large size objects (D. Maystre, M. Saillard). The method of smoothing applied to random volume and surface scattering (G.S. Brown). Scattering of EM waves from particles with random rough surfaces (R. Schiffer). Surface impedance boundary conditions used to study light scattering from metallic surfaces (R.A. Depine). The use of the Calderon projectors and the capacity operators in scattering (M. Cessenat). Part III. Non-linear Interactions. Gratings as electromagnetic field amplifiers for second harmonic generation (R. Reinisch, M. Neviere). Intrinsic instabilities of laser-irradiated surfaces (J.E. Sipe, H.M. van Driel). Brillouin scattering from thin films (G.I. Stegeman et al.) Author Index. Subject Index.