Abstract

This paper extends Burckhardt’s solution for diffraction from a thick grating to include complex dielectric constants and nonsinusoidal stratifications. This allows any realistic periodic structure to be handled. Computed results are compared with coupled-wave theory, as described by Kogelnik, with emphasis on strongly absorbing gratings such as those made by photographing an interference pattern. Finally, some experimental holographic data are compared with computations that take into account the photographic nonlinearity between exposure and dielectric constant.

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Calculation of diffraction efficiency in hologram gratings attenuated along the direction perpendicular to the grating vector

Naoya Uchida
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 63(3) 280-287 (1973)

Calculation of arbitrary-order diffraction efficiencies of thick gratings with arbitrary grating shape*

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Diffraction of a Plane Wave at a Sinusoidally Stratified Dielectric Grating

C. B. Burckhardt
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 56(11) 1502-1508 (1966)

Smith–Purcell radiation from a line charge moving parallel to a reflection grating

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