Abstract

The decrease of reflectance of a thick metal sample for a photon that is incident normally on a rough surface and which creates a surface plasmon is computed from first-order perturbation theory. The metal is approximated by a bounded free-electron gas, and the dispersive properties of the surface collective mode are accounted for in the result.

© 1970 Optical Society of America

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