An efficient and stable spectral method for electromagnetic scattering from a layered periodic structure (Q417825)

The paper under review deals with a boundary perturbation method for the scattering of electromagnetic waves by doubly layered periodic dielectric media. This method is based on the following essential steps: (i) a domain flattening through a change of variable; (ii) a recursion by boundary perturbation; (iii) a Legendre-Galerkin method for solving the one-dimensional Helmholtz equation with piecewise constant wave numbers. Numerical results illustrate the accuracy and the stability of this method for a range of small to moderate wave numbers.