Abstract

First-order theories of light scattering previously revealed the existence of anti-scattering effects in optical multilayers. Here we present an exact electromagnetic theory that is able to complete the scattering analysis when first-order scattering is cancelled. The theory is valid for arbitrary rough multilayers.

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