Teorías de la difracción de ondas electromagnéticas por redes de volumen: Una revisión

We present a revision for the existing theories on diffraction of electromagnetic waves by volume gratings. We have focused our attention to the following groups of theories: coupled waves theories, modal theories, multiple dispersion theories, and electromagnetic theories of gratings, provided they were appropriate to analysis of volume diffraction gratings. We also include a revision of some other theories and methods having minor impact in this field as: effective medium theory, boundary diffraction method, finite element method, and micro genetics algorithms. We include a total of 225 selected references covering a period of approximately one hundred years: 1891-1997.