Non-Uniform Diffraction Pattern of 2D-Cross-Grating ---Rotating Grating
Around Three Axes
Abstract
The orientation-dependence of the diffraction patterns of the 1D-grating
experiments have been systematically studied by utilizing the
3-axis-rotation apparatus. It is shown that the spacings between
adjacent diffraction orders are non-uniform. Namely, from “one end” of
the pattern to “other end”, the spacings between adjacent diffraction
orders gradually increase. In this article, we systematically study the
orientation-dependence of the diffraction patterns of the
2D-cross-grating. The experiments show that the diffraction patterns are
non-uniform as that of the 1D-grating experiments.
This extraordinary phenomenon challenges the existing theoretical
description of the grating experiments. The above observed phenomena
provide the comprehensive phenomena to theoretical study of the grating
experiments. We suggest that the complete mathematical model should
contain three rotation angles as parameters and should be able to
describe the phenomena of the non-uniform-spacing, curved, expanded,
inclined and mirror-symmetric diffraction patterns consistently.