MC GratingAbout MC Grating Software
History
MC Grating Software of a diffraction grating analysis and design that would run on a PC was developed from 1999 by Dr. Nikolay Lyndin – senior physicist of General Physics Institute, Moscow. Since 2018 the software development is supported by Boris Usievich, Alexander Lyndin and Aleksey Bondarenko.
For many years the author is involved with solving scientific and practical problems of using multilayer grating structures in grating couplers, biochemistry sensors, laser resonator modes selection and others. For this reason from the beginning this grating software was designed for personal use to insure a maximum convenience for the user.
Initially the grating software included C-method [1-4] based codes that are very appropriate for smooth grating profile analysis. In 2003 the grating software was extended with True Modes Method [5-9] (TMM) and from 2007 with Fourier Modes Method [10-12] (FMM). The modal methods codes are naturally adapted for the lamellar gratings and are complementary to the C-method based codes. Reliable lamellar modes searching algorithm in TMM and suppression of the FMM instabilities in highly conductive gratings [12] were developed and implemented. From 2008 Crossed-grating (FMM) with an automatic generation of NV-Field [21-23] and from 2010 (C-method [20]) software are available.
Additional features for obtaining results, scanning and optimization were added in 2016 and 2017. Advanced features allow the following:
- To expand the possibility of output for obtained data.
- To extend scanning and optimization features when using any valid combination of the structure parameters. Restrictions only apply to the parameters whose values alter position of other parameters in the text structure (row and column indices).
- To simplify the calculations under the condition of Littrow or user-specified condition, using a valid set of parameters.
The current release is 2026-05-25; the version history lists every release since 2013, and the bibliography the papers cited above.
The authors
Dr. Nikolay Lyndin
MC Grating Software of a diffraction grating analysis and design that would run on a PC was developed from 1999 by Dr. Nikolay Lyndin – senior physicist of General Physics Institute, Moscow. For many years the author is involved with solving scientific and practical problems of using multilayer grating structures in grating couplers, biochemistry sensors, laser resonator modes selection and others. For this reason from the beginning this grating software was designed for personal use to insure a maximum convenience for the user.
Boris Usievich
MC Grating Software development since the beginning was assisted by Boris Usievich – physicist of General Physics Institute, Moscow. For many years he is involved in the scientific research in the fields of analytical and numerical modelling of waveguide systems, plasmons, surface waves, diffraction gratings, wire grid polarizers etc. He is also a specialist in computer programming.
Since 2018 the software development is supported by Boris Usievich, Alexander Lyndin and Aleksey Bondarenko.
Papers by the authors
Several of the hosted papers were written by the authors of the software and their collaborators, and two of them compare computed spectra with measurements on fabricated gratings: a top-hat compression grating designed, fabricated and measured (97% average efficiency over 777–815 nm), and a narrow-band resonant grating mirror whose measured resonance lies within 1 nm of the design. The others: [9], [12], [13], [17], [24].