Singularities and Rayleigh’s hypothesis for diffraction gratings
- 1 March 2000
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Journal of the Optical Society of America A
- Vol. 17 (3), 456-457
- https://doi.org/10.1364/josaa.17.000456
Abstract
The foci or branch points are found for a sinusoidal boundary. It is shown how they determine the range of validity of Rayleigh’s hypothesis for diffraction gratings.Keywords
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