Binary grating
We want to analyze a binary metallic grating, e.g. from paper: Li,
Haggans, "Convergence of the coupled-wave method for metallic
lamellar diffraction gratings," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 10, 1184-1189 (1993).
It consist of a lamellar grating with a groove depth of 1 μm. The
dielectric has an optical index of 0.22-i*6.71. The incident wavelength
λ, the period Λ, and the height of the grating is 1 μm. The angle of
incidence is equal to 30º. The incident polarization is TM.
Firstly, we have to set the following parameters in the file
main.m as follows:
number_of_orders=41;
lambda=1;
use_dispersion=2; % 2= no dispersion
theta0=30;
polarization=1; % 1=TM polarization
grating=0; % 0=binary grating
Lambda=1;
thickness_total=1;
n1=1;
n3=0.22-6.71*1i;
ng=1;
nr=n3;
duty_cycle=.5;
shift=.5;
measurement=0; % 0=shows all diffraction efficiencies
We obtain this result:
reflected orders
order efficiency
-1.000000000000000 0.101539667397081
0 0.844253933170622
transmitted orders
only evanescent orders
sum_eff =
0.945793600567703 0.011854620163793 0.957648220731496
There are only two reflected diffraction orders, all transmitted orders are evanescent. Sum of reflected
orders is equal to 0.94579, whereas sum of transmitted order is 0.01185. This grating is lossy, so the
total sum 0.9576482 is lesser than 1. Secondly, we want to investigate, if the convergence of the zero-
order diffraction efficiency is satisfied. We have to set:
measurement=1; % 1=dependence of the diff. efficiency on the number of orders