MC GratingHighly Conducting Lamellar Diffraction Gratings
L.C. Botten, M.S. Craig, R.C. McPhedran
L.C. Botten, M.S. Craig and R.C. McPhedran, “Highly Conducting Lamellar Diffraction Gratings”, Optica Acta: International Journal of Optics 28, 1103-1106 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1080/713820701
A short companion note: for highly conducting gratings the complex transcendental equation of the lossy modal theory becomes hard to solve, and roots are easily missed. The paper gives an improved root-finding procedure and demonstrates it on an aluminium grating.
Finding every lamellar mode reliably is the problem MC Grating's own mode-search algorithm addresses; the history of the software records that a "reliable lamellar modes searching algorithm in TMM" was one of the developments implemented in Modal Collinear.
- Implemented in
- Modal Collinear
- Cited on
- The modal method (RCWA / FMM)
- Bibliography
- Reference [7]
- Full text
- Highly Conducting Lamellar Diffraction Gratings (PDF, 169 KB)
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