Diffraction by a grating consisting of absorbing screens of different height. New equations (Q280875)

Motivated by the problem of radiation by an open end of a plane waveguide with walls of different height, the authors revisit the problem of scattering by a periodic grating of perfectly absorbing screens. Although this gives rise to a matrix Wiener-Hopf problem, no solution for such problem has been identified. The authors derive a spectral equation for the introduced edge Green functions and an embedding formula, expressing the scattering coefficients in terms of the directivities of the edge Green functions. Then, several properties are derived, as it is the case of asymptotic expressions for the directivities of the edge Green functions and the asymptotics of the reflection coefficient for the principal mode.