Diffraction efficiency

Diffraction efficiency is the performance of diffractive optical elements especially diffraction gratings in terms of power throughput. It's a measure of how much optical power is diffracted into a designated direction compared to the power incident onto the diffractive element.

If the diffracted power is designated with and the incident power with the efficiency reads

Grating efficiency

In the most common case the diffraction efficiency of optical gratings (therefore also called grating efficiency) there are two possibilities to specify efficiency:[1][2]

References

  1. "Diffraction Efficiency & Relationship between Diffraction Efficiency and Polarization". Shimadzu Corporation. 2012. Retrieved 1 November 2012.
  2. "Technical Note 10 Guidelines for specifying diffraction gratings". Newport Corporation. Retrieved 1 November 2012.

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