Modal analysis of a fused-silica three-port beam splitter grating

Wenting Sun; Changhe Zhou; Bin Yu

doi:10.1117/12.999421

20 November 2012 Modal analysis of a fused-silica three-port beam splitter grating

Wenting Sun, Changhe Zhou, Bin Yu

Proceedings Volume 8564, Nanophotonics and Micro/Nano Optics; 856411 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.999421
Event: Photonics Asia, 2012, Beijing, China

Abstract

A new modal analysis based on the simplified mode method and multi-beam interference theory is proposed. Multiple reflection of propagating modes at grating interfaces is considered by introducing equivalent Fresnel coefficients into the diffraction process analysis. Then the proposed modal analysis is applied to design a rectangular-groove fused-silica grating as a three-port beam splitter. The diffraction efficiency expressions are derived in this paper, which are analogous to the results of multi-beam interference of a plane-parallel plate. Dependence of diffraction efficiencies of the transmission 0th and 1st diffractive orders on the groove depth is obtained with optimized grating period and duty cycle. Compared with the simplified mode method, the results based on the proposed modal analysis can match much better with those from rigorous coupled-wave analysis (RCWA), which proves the validity of the new modal analysis method. Moreover, the analysis results give an intuitionistic proof that the ideal 100% diffraction efficiencies of the transmission diffractive orders can’t be realized and the transmission 0th order can’t be cancelled in low-contrast grating. As the effective refractive indices of diffractive orders are introduced into the diffraction process analysis, this modal analysis is all valid under the usual incidence cases of normal incidence, Littrow mounting, and second Bragg angle incidence. More importantly, the proposed modal analysis provides a more accurate physical image of grating diffraction process, which should be a useful analysis tool for high-density grating.

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Wenting Sun, Changhe Zhou, and Bin Yu "Modal analysis of a fused-silica three-port beam splitter grating", Proc. SPIE 8564, Nanophotonics and Micro/Nano Optics, 856411 (20 November 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.999421

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Diffraction gratings

Modal analysis

Diffraction

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