COMPLEX SPECTRA IN DIFFRACTION GRATING SPECTRAL DEVICE

Polarizing diffraction-grating triplicators.

We report experimental results with a reflective continuous anisotropic polarizing diffraction-grating beam splitter that produces three diffraction orders. The diffraction efficiencies and polarizations of the diffracted orders are controlled through the incoming polarization state and by use of a wave plate with arbitrary orientation located between the grating and a mirror. In particular, we...

The Diffraction Grating

One-way diffraction grating.

Diffraction gratings are elementary tools for much of optics and spectroscopy. Here, at microwave frequencies, we provide a new perspective on these fundamental structures. A transmission diffraction grating is presented that has diffracted beams emanating from one surface only. It can thus function either as a transmission grating with no reflected orders (other than zero) or, in the reverse c...

On the theoretical possibility to apply an acoustic diffraction grating as a complex frequency filter device for electronic signals.

In electronics, it is well known that filtering devices can be made that are able to decompose a signal instantaneously into a number of real frequency components. This procedure is equivalent to a numerical real time Fourier transform. However, it is also known that an electronic signal can be decomposed not just in real frequency components, but also in complex frequency components. The curre...

Shadow Theory of Diffraction Grating

This paper deals with a new formulation for the diffraction of a plane wave by a periodic grating. As a simple example, the diffraction of a transverse magnetic wave by a perfectly conductive periodic array of rectangular grooves is discussed. On the basis of a shadow hypothesis such that no diffraction takes place and only the reflection occurs with the reflection coefficient −1 at a low grazi...