Figure 4
Comparison of the beam cross sections around the grating in the condition presented in Figs. 1–3. The solid line presents the cross section just downstream of the grating upon off-plane diffraction for an incident beam, which passed an aperture with square shape (dashed line) just upstream of the grating. The figure applies for a staircase inclination of α = 29.5°and the parallelogram inclination angle ϑ is calculated by using equation (3). |