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A diffractive slab structure comprising a mirror, a dielectric film, and a grating in the film is made to always exhibit 100% diffraction efficiency for the – 1st order pointing in a backward direction. The design is obtained by sole interference reasoning, and confirmed numerically.
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Tishchenko, A., Sychugov, V. High grating efficiency by energy accumulation in a leaky mode. Optical and Quantum Electronics 32, 1027–1031 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007055604507
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