The transmission of light through low-coverage regular and random arrays of glass-supported silica micropillars of diameters 10-40 µm and height 10 µm is studied experimentally. Angle-resolved measurements of the transmitted intensity are performed at visible wavelengths by either a goniospectrophotometer or a multimodal imaging (Mueller) polarimetric microscope. It is demonstrated that for the regular arrays, the angle-resolved measurements are capable of resolving many of the densely packed diffraction orders that are expected for periodic structures of lattice constants 20-80 µm, but they also display features ("halos" and fringes) that are due to the scattering and guiding of light in individual micropillars or in the supporting glass slides. These latter features are also found in angle-resolved measurements on random arrays of micropillars of the same surface coverage. Finally, we perform a comparison of direct measurements of haze in transmission for our patterned glass samples with what can be calculated from the angle-resolved transmitted intensity measurements. Good agreement between the two types of results is found, which testifies to the accuracy of the angle-resolved measurements that we report.
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