Hybridization of the rigorous coupled-wave approach with transformation optics for electromagnetic scattering by a surface-relief grating (Q2141611)

The authors combine transformation optics with the rigorous coupled-wave approach, in view to study the time-harmonic Maxwell equations in a spatial domain that contains a grating, being invariant in one dimension (and so that the chosen constitutive properties allow the reduction of the full Maxwell system to a 2D Helmholtz equation for each linear polarization state). The existence of solution to the original scattering problem is obtained. A convergence analysis was included for a discretized form of the transformed problem (with respect to two different parameters), and the uniqueness of solution of this discretized problem is obtained. A numerical example was presented as a test of the convergence theory, allowing also some comparison with other known methods.