VECTOR COUPLED-WAVE THEORY OF DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS IN THE RESONANCE DOMAIN

In this paper, based on Maxwell's equations and boundary continuity condi-tions of electromagnetic fields, we derive rigorous vector coupled-wave equations of two-dimensional diffractive patterns for an arbitrary polarization in the resonance domain, and describe the solution to these equations. We verify this theory with a practical example, and show the effectiveness of this method for the resonance-domain diffractive optics.