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Exactly Solvable Diffraction-Grating Scattering Problems for TE and TM waves

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Farhang Loran *
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Alí Mostafazadeh *
DOI:10.1093/ptep/ptag147delete
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where V0,K⁠, and ℓ are positive real parameters. This result, which relies on the paraxial approximation, readily applies to the diffraction of transverse electric (TE) waves by the nonmagnetic optical grating given by the relative permittivity, ε^(x,y):=1−v(x,y)/k2⁠, where k is the incident wavenumber. We show that Berry’s grating belongs to a larger class of possibly magnetic diffraction gratings whose scattering problem for both TE and transverse magnetic (TM) waves is exactly solvable. Our analysis makes use of a recently developed dynamical formulation of stationary scattering that is based on the idea of mapping the scattering problem to the quantum dynamics generated by an effective non-Hermitian Hamiltonian operator. We use this formulation to derive explicit analytic expressions for the diffracted beam amplitudes that are valid beyond paraxial approximation. As a concrete example, we offer the exact solution of the scattering problem for TE and TM waves incident upon a generalization of Berry’s grating.

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Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics cover
Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics
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koc university
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