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J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis
; 23(10): 2501-9, 2006 Oct.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-16985535
RESUMO
The modal method is well adapted for the modeling of deep-groove, high-contrast gratings of short period, possibly involving metal parts. Yet problems remain in the case of the TM polarization in the presence of metal parts in the corrugations: whereas most of the diffraction features are explained by the interplay of an astonishingly small number of true propagating and low-order evanescent modes, the exact solution of the diffraction problem requires the contribution of two types of evanescent modes that are usually overlooked. We investigate the nature and the role of these modes and show that metal gratings can be treated exactly by the modal method.