A modal analysis of lamellar diffraction gratings in conical mountings
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A rigorous modal analysis of lamellar gratings, i.e . gratings having rectangular grooves, in conical mountings is presented . It is an extension of the analysis of Botten et al . which considered non-conical mountings. A key step in the extension is a decomposition of the electromagnetic field in the grating region into two orthogonal components. A computer program implementing this extended modal analysis is capable of dealing with plane wave diffraction by dielectric and metallic gratings with deep grooves, at arbitrary angles of incidence, and having arbitrary incident polarizations . Some numerical examples are included .
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