Departamento de Fisica Fundamental, Universidad Autonoma, Madrid-34, Spain
Physics Department, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22901, USA
Instituto de Optica del CSIC, Madrid, Spain
Abstract:
The exact multiple scattering theory of waves scattered from a random rough surface is presented. We give an iterative series for the mean scattered intensity (I (Q)) for all order in the statistics. We show that the coherent intensity for large correlation distances approaches the value obtained in the Kirchhoff approximation by Beckmann. Also we prove that a “white noise” surface reflects specularly the whole incident intensity.