Abstract

We consider the implementation of several standard optical components by means of diffraction gratings. The motivation depends on the particular grating employed. A binary surface relief grating, in fused silica, for example, may provide greater robustness than, say, a multi-layer thin film. This is significant for high power laser systems. Alternatively, gratings manifesting the so-called guided-mode resonance (GMR) [1], or resonance type Wood anomaly, are of interest because ideally they give a very high performance for certain optical functions.

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